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Julius Hamilton (Jun 13 2024 at 19:01):In many fields, it’s common to publish a review article, which attempts to collect information comprehensively about the current state of a field, especially an active one with lots of new research spread out across different sub-topics.
Do mathematicians do literature reviews?
If you wanted to do a casual one yourself, which database should you search in? MathSciNet? I think you need a university login for that one. https://www.ams.org/publications/math-reviews/math-reviews
Example use case: get an overview of all the different fields topos theory is finding applications in, from physics to logic to non-mathematical disciplines.
Morgan Rogers (he/him) (Jun 13 2024 at 19:30):They exist, but mathematicians tend to put a lot more effort into depth rather than breadth. They're typically called "surveys", which have been alluded to in another topic recently... oh and also one that you're involved in @Julius Hamilton . For applications of a given thing, you might want to look into history of mathematics surveys?