Timeline for Fermat's opponents
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| Jan 2, 2018 at 17:54 | comment | added | Mikhail Katz | @MattF., for an update on the European theological context see the article cited in Note 2. | |
| Jan 2, 2018 at 17:13 | history | edited | Mikhail Katz | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| S Aug 10, 2016 at 14:27 | history | bounty started | Mikhail Katz | ||
| S Aug 10, 2016 at 14:27 | history | notice added | Mikhail Katz | Draw attention | |
| Aug 10, 2016 at 14:11 | answer | added | Joël | timeline score: 11 | |
| Aug 10, 2016 at 11:08 | comment | added | user44143 | What do you mean by "such actions"? Theological criticisms of adequality? | |
| Aug 10, 2016 at 11:04 | comment | added | Mikhail Katz | @MattF. I tried to address your concerns. | |
| Aug 10, 2016 at 11:03 | history | edited | Mikhail Katz | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Aug 10, 2016 at 10:58 | comment | added | user44143 | This post needs a clear question: not just issues and things to be gauged in the midst of long declarative sentences, but something ending in a question mark. | |
| Aug 10, 2016 at 8:34 | history | edited | Mikhail Katz | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Aug 9, 2016 at 21:01 | review | Close votes | |||
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| Aug 9, 2016 at 15:55 | comment | added | Yemon Choi | In fairness: I think the details that Mikhail added to the question since its original version go some way to countering/allaying my concerns, and since people have decided the question should stay open here, I will desist | |
| Aug 9, 2016 at 15:55 | comment | added | Mikhail Katz | @YemonChoi, I agree with you about the need to understand the historical context of the time and in fact I have been doing quite a bit of background reading on this. The books by Alexander and Redondi provide useful bibliographies that are a helpful starting point for such an investigation. As you know a number of historians frequent MO and moreover a number of mathematicians are interested in history so I don't think this question is ill-placed. | |
| Aug 9, 2016 at 15:53 | comment | added | Yemon Choi | @FranzLemmermeyer Sorry to hear that. I wish questions on history of maths and science had a good home, with the emphasis on history (methodology, context, source evaluation) | |
| Aug 9, 2016 at 15:47 | comment | added | Yemon Choi | Since the question has been re-opened, let me clarify my earlier comments. To evaluate whether "Fermat may have also been hesitant to be too frank... because of possible theological risks involved and the possible use of this by his enemies" we need to do more than read about things that happened to Fermat. We need an idea of the times in which he lived, the mores and the culture and the politics in which he moved. The five things that Mikhail mentions could be set against all the many instances where nothing happened: my comment about cherry-picking was a warning against sample bias. | |
| Aug 9, 2016 at 13:32 | history | edited | Mikhail Katz | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Aug 9, 2016 at 13:31 | comment | added | Todd Trimble | See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russell%27s_teapot for the background to jdh's comment. | |
| Aug 9, 2016 at 13:31 | answer | added | Zurab Silagadze | timeline score: 16 | |
| Aug 9, 2016 at 12:57 | history | reopened |
paul garrett Mikhail Katz user21574 Franz Lemmermeyer Friedrich Knop |
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| Aug 9, 2016 at 12:52 | history | edited | Mikhail Katz | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Aug 9, 2016 at 11:52 | comment | added | Mikhail Katz | @JoelReyesNoche, I think what Franz is trying to say, and I agree with him, is that the HSM site is pretty moribund. I would not describe it as a failure but at any rate there is very little traffic and few sustained users. | |
| Aug 9, 2016 at 11:50 | history | edited | Mikhail Katz | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Aug 9, 2016 at 3:28 | comment | added | JRN | @FranzLemmermeyer, "a joke, as is hsm" Are you saying that the History of Science and Mathematics Stack Exchange site is a joke? | |
| Aug 8, 2016 at 22:53 | comment | added | Franz Lemmermeyer | The idea that questions on history belong to hsm is a joke, as is hsm. | |
| Aug 8, 2016 at 19:36 | comment | added | The Thin Whistler | We cannot prove or disprove that Fermat's enemies had influences on his method of adequality, just like we cannot prove or disprove that somewhere between Earth and Mars there is a teapot circling around the sun. ;) | |
| Aug 8, 2016 at 15:49 | history | edited | Mikhail Katz | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Aug 8, 2016 at 15:42 | review | Reopen votes | |||
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| Aug 8, 2016 at 15:26 | history | edited | Mikhail Katz | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Aug 8, 2016 at 15:15 | comment | added | Mikhail Katz | @YemonChoi, I am not sure what cherry-picking you are referring to. As stated in the question, I am simply reporting all the information I have on Fermat's potential enemies and Fermat's reactions to some controversial events that affected him. If you have more information to supplement what you see as cherry-picking, please report this. This is exactly what I am asking for. | |
| Aug 8, 2016 at 15:02 | history | closed |
Wolfgang Yemon Choi abx Federico Poloni Andy Putman |
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| Aug 8, 2016 at 14:47 | comment | added | Yemon Choi | I'm voting to close this question as belonging much better on hsm.stackexchange.com | |
| Aug 8, 2016 at 14:47 | comment | added | Yemon Choi | This strikes me as rampant speculation unless we actually examine the intellectual history of the time without reading our own preconceptions into it. How do we know points (1)-(5) are not just cherry-picking? | |
| Aug 8, 2016 at 14:25 | history | asked | Mikhail Katz | CC BY-SA 3.0 |