Timeline for Are there any serious investigations of whether "mathematicians do their best work when they're young"?
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| Apr 13, 2017 at 12:58 | history | edited | CommunityBot |
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| Jan 7, 2015 at 20:52 | comment | added | Joseph O'Rourke | @JSE: Ha! :-) ${}$ | |
| Jan 7, 2015 at 20:14 | comment | added | JSE | I haven't read this in years. I have to say, I have learned a lot since then about how to construct a magazine article; this one is kind of confusing, especially where it suddenly veers from general math sociology into a discussion of algebraic topology with no transition. Still, since I am 11 years older now than I was when I wrote that, I heartily endorse its conclusions. | |
| Jan 2, 2015 at 23:11 | comment | added | Elizabeth Henning | I remember reading this when Slate first posted it. It's a nice piece, but it's purely anecdotal. | |
| Jan 2, 2015 at 21:58 | comment | added | Nik Weaver | As I read this article, I kept noticing how free it was of gross misconceptions about mathematics. Of course, it turns out that the author is a mathematician ... | |
| S Jan 2, 2015 at 21:49 | history | answered | Joseph O'Rourke | CC BY-SA 3.0 | |
| S Jan 2, 2015 at 21:49 | history | made wiki | Post Made Community Wiki by Joseph O'Rourke |