Timeline for Mathematicians whose works were criticized by contemporaries but became widely accepted later
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| Feb 13, 2013 at 2:04 | comment | added | Margaret Friedland | @quid: you are completely right, I removed the previous comment. It's getting late, I somehow read "Riemann" instead of "Bieberbach", and thought of de Branges's (later) interest in proving the Riemann hypothesis. For those who want to read more about the sociological aspects of the proof of Bieberbach conjecture, as well as of de Branges's work on other famous problems, I can recommend the story in: Krantz, Steven G. The proof is in the pudding. The changing nature of mathematical proof. Springer, New York, 2011. xviii+264 pp. ISBN: 978-0-387-48908-7 | |
| Feb 13, 2013 at 1:44 | comment | added | user9072 | @Margaret Friedland: I do not understand your comment, could you please elaborate. I was under the firm believe that Bieberbach is considered as proved by de Branges, while there were some issues early on (also some actual ones). And there are other (simpler) proofs meanwhile. | |
| Feb 12, 2013 at 23:45 | history | answered | Deane Yang | CC BY-SA 3.0 |