Timeline for Mathematicians whose works were criticized by contemporaries but became widely accepted later
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| May 4, 2014 at 3:29 | comment | added | GH from MO | @Gerry: Very good, actually it was unintentional! | |
| May 4, 2014 at 0:39 | comment | added | Gerry Myerson | @GHfromMO, "Note that Lobachevsky's work was paralleled by János Bolyai" --- pun intended? | |
| Feb 13, 2013 at 22:29 | comment | added | Jonathan Chiche | But you did not mention accusations of plagiarism in your answer... I was not aware of that. Thanks. | |
| Feb 12, 2013 at 11:11 | comment | added | Daniel Moskovich | @Jonathan Chiche: Hence the word "perhaps" :-). It would be quite a coincidence if "prosodic reasons" were indeed literally the only reasons, given that Lobachevsky was both famously ridiculed, and later famously falsely accused of plagiarism (he was accused of stealing his ideas from Gauss). | |
| Feb 12, 2013 at 9:11 | comment | added | Jonathan Chiche | Found: home.broadpark.no/~emeyn/tl/radio2.html. "I took the name of Lobachevsky, only for prosodic reasons, just because it fit". (With an emphasis on "only".) | |
| Feb 12, 2013 at 9:04 | comment | added | Jonathan Chiche | If my memory serves me right, Lehrer made this choice for prosodic reasons only. Or euphonic ones. I mean, it sounds better than other names and fits well. I recall Lehrer talking about that in an interview, to which one could probably find a link on a Youtube channel devoted to him. | |
| Feb 12, 2013 at 9:00 | comment | added | GH from MO | Note that Lobachevsky's work was paralleled by János Bolyai (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J%C3%A1nos_Bolyai) whose work was (and still is) even less recognized. | |
| Feb 12, 2013 at 8:54 | history | answered | Daniel Moskovich | CC BY-SA 3.0 |