Timeline for Mathematicians whose works were criticized by contemporaries but became widely accepted later
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| May 26 at 22:44 | comment | added | Timothy Chow | @FShrike The reference is to "Theology and Its Discontents" by Colin McLarty. Wayback Machine link and official website. | |
| May 26 at 22:19 | comment | added | FShrike | @TimothyChow this link is now dead | |
| Feb 12, 2013 at 15:25 | comment | added | Timothy Chow | For more information about the "theology" urban legend, see people.math.jussieu.fr/~harris/theology.pdf | |
| Feb 12, 2013 at 15:19 | comment | added | Martin Brandenburg | It is true that it took some decades for the mathematical community to digest and elaborate the ingenious but only sketched ideas of Galois. But who criticized his work? | |
| Feb 12, 2013 at 15:18 | comment | added | arsmath | Is this true? Of course not everyone is going to switch mathematical styles instantly, but was there any actual resistance? (The evidence that Paul Gordan said anything like "That is not mathematics, that is theology" is pretty thin.) | |
| Feb 12, 2013 at 13:38 | history | answered | Abdelmalek Abdesselam | CC BY-SA 3.0 |