Timeline for Good papers/books/essays about the thought process behind mathematical research
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| Jul 29 at 19:44 | answer | added | Tom Copeland | timeline score: 0 | |
| Feb 28, 2022 at 12:10 | answer | added | Max Lonysa Muller | timeline score: 0 | |
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| Oct 27, 2013 at 17:39 | comment | added | Matthieu Romagny | A big classic is Jacques Hadamard's essay "Essai sur la psychologie de l'invention dans le domaine mathématique" (Gabay) translated as "The Psychology of invention in the mathematical field" (Dover). | |
| Oct 27, 2013 at 1:10 | answer | added | Yannic | timeline score: 0 | |
| Oct 26, 2013 at 13:33 | answer | added | Amir Asghari | timeline score: 2 | |
| Oct 26, 2013 at 10:46 | comment | added | user9072 | I protected this question as it seems to fit the general criteria for this (many answers and old) and primarily since it attracted two spam-answers (of a similar type) in a short period of time. If somebody is unhappy about this please notify me. | |
| Oct 26, 2013 at 10:42 | history | protected | user9072 | ||
| Mar 19, 2013 at 13:13 | answer | added | Alan Bundy | timeline score: 4 | |
| Sep 13, 2012 at 2:48 | answer | added | YangMills | timeline score: 7 | |
| Sep 12, 2012 at 18:27 | answer | added | Arnab | timeline score: 0 | |
| Sep 12, 2012 at 16:35 | answer | added | anonymous | timeline score: 0 | |
| Sep 12, 2012 at 16:02 | answer | added | Margaret Friedland | timeline score: 3 | |
| Sep 12, 2012 at 13:20 | answer | added | Michael Murray | timeline score: 5 | |
| Sep 12, 2012 at 12:28 | answer | added | Micah Milinovich | timeline score: 5 | |
| Sep 12, 2012 at 8:24 | answer | added | Xueping Huang | timeline score: 1 | |
| Mar 5, 2011 at 17:38 | answer | added | John Sidles | timeline score: 26 | |
| Mar 5, 2011 at 16:41 | answer | added | Alexander_Soifer | timeline score: 4 | |
| Jul 12, 2010 at 23:36 | answer | added | Douglas Bowman | timeline score: 3 | |
| Jul 12, 2010 at 16:25 | answer | added | Bill Dubuque | timeline score: 6 | |
| Jul 12, 2010 at 16:07 | answer | added | Koundinya Vajjha | timeline score: 0 | |
| May 29, 2010 at 23:22 | answer | added | Kevin H. Lin | timeline score: 5 | |
| May 29, 2010 at 12:01 | comment | added | Gerald Edgar | Probably "how it was arrived at" is not what most readers want to know, which is the reason it is generally written as it is. | |
| May 15, 2010 at 16:09 | answer | added | Christos | timeline score: 6 | |
| May 15, 2010 at 13:23 | answer | added | Thomas Riepe | timeline score: 3 | |
| May 14, 2010 at 19:08 | answer | added | Yiftach Barnea | timeline score: 9 | |
| May 14, 2010 at 7:44 | answer | added | Qiaochu Yuan | timeline score: 13 | |
| May 14, 2010 at 7:16 | answer | added | Emerton | timeline score: 15 | |
| May 14, 2010 at 6:54 | answer | added | José Hdz. Stgo. | timeline score: 9 | |
| May 14, 2010 at 6:23 | answer | added | Matt Gibson | timeline score: 8 | |
| May 14, 2010 at 1:54 | answer | added | mathphysicist | timeline score: 6 | |
| May 14, 2010 at 1:48 | answer | added | mathphysicist | timeline score: 16 | |
| May 13, 2010 at 23:37 | answer | added | Carter Tazio Schonwald | timeline score: 24 | |
| May 13, 2010 at 21:21 | comment | added | Pratik Deoghare | @Qiaochu Yuan Thanks for the great link. :D Why don't you post that link as an answer? | |
| May 13, 2010 at 20:59 | answer | added | Victor Protsak | timeline score: 14 | |
| May 13, 2010 at 19:47 | comment | added | KConrad | Poincare wrote some essays that touch on this topic. Look for his book "Science and Method". | |
| May 13, 2010 at 18:44 | comment | added | Gunnar Þór Magnússon | Kodaira talks about how he and Spences figured out some of their results in "Complex Manifolds and Deformations of Complex Structures". Those comments are intervowen with the text though, so they're not easy to dig out if that's the only thing you're interested in. | |
| May 13, 2010 at 18:02 | comment | added | Qiaochu Yuan | Terence Tao's "What is good mathematics?" isn't a bad place to start (arxiv.org/abs/math.HO/0702396). Actually, I think Terence Tao's and Tim Gowers' blogs, and blogs in general, are a great way to learn about the thought process behind mathematical research. | |
| May 13, 2010 at 17:49 | history | asked | DoubleJay | CC BY-SA 2.5 |