Timeline for Mathematicians whose works were criticized by contemporaries but became widely accepted later
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| Jan 19, 2014 at 10:58 | history | edited | Torsten Schoeneberg | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Feb 12, 2013 at 14:11 | comment | added | Torsten Schoeneberg | Yes, Bolzano's case does not really fit the spirit of the question. If you want me to delete this answer, no problem. | |
| Feb 12, 2013 at 13:56 | comment | added | Gerald Edgar | As I recall: Bolzano was a Catholic priest, with a position of professor of philosophy in Prague. He taught theology and also mathematics. Since this was part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, in the theology courses he should have been teaching (but wasn't) that it is the religious duty of every citizen to obey the edicts of the emperor. So he was dismissed from the university. And it became very difficult for him to publish, even mathematics. So I agree: it is not that his mathematics was criticized, but rather that it was mostly unpublished and therefore unknown. | |
| Feb 12, 2013 at 11:51 | comment | added | Andrej Bauer | So this is more of a case of un-recognition, as opposed to ridicule? | |
| Feb 12, 2013 at 11:38 | history | answered | Torsten Schoeneberg | CC BY-SA 3.0 |