http://www.arsmathematica.net/2005/12/21/mathematical-reviews/ Dedicated to the mathematical arts. Fri, 29 May 2015 09:17:44 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.1.41 http://www.arsmathematica.net/2005/12/21/mathematical-reviews/#comment-218 Thu, 29 Dec 2005 01:31:43 +0000 http://www.arsmathematica.net/archives/2005/12/21/mathematical-reviews/#comment-218 To find out the content of the papers, mostly. Also to get a sense of whether they’re worth reading.

]]> http://www.arsmathematica.net/2005/12/21/mathematical-reviews/#comment-205 Fri, 23 Dec 2005 15:20:11 +0000 http://www.arsmathematica.net/archives/2005/12/21/mathematical-reviews/#comment-205 What do you use the reviews for?

]]> http://www.arsmathematica.net/2005/12/21/mathematical-reviews/#comment-204 Thu, 22 Dec 2005 14:06:58 +0000 http://www.arsmathematica.net/archives/2005/12/21/mathematical-reviews/#comment-204 (Actually, now that I think about it, that’s overzealous — in weeks where I’m actively researching something new, I use it constantly, while other months [when finals loom etc.] I don’t open it at all. It probably averages to slightly less than once a week over the long term.)

]]> http://www.arsmathematica.net/2005/12/21/mathematical-reviews/#comment-203 Thu, 22 Dec 2005 13:24:11 +0000 http://www.arsmathematica.net/archives/2005/12/21/mathematical-reviews/#comment-203 Sure, I use MathSciNet (the online version of MR) at least a couple of times a week.

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