Timeline for Which pair of mathematicians has the most joint papers?
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| Jun 21, 2010 at 12:58 | comment | added | Ben Green | An honourable mention in this regard should go to Christopher Hooley, with his series of papers "On the Barban-Davenport-Halberstam Theorem". I believe this has now reached installment 17 at least. One might also mention that Hooley is unlikely to be mentioned in the main discussion, being the author of 90ish papers on MathSciNet, all but one of which (an obituary) is single-author. Maybe I'll post this as a question... | |
| Jun 21, 2010 at 8:28 | comment | added | John Stillwell | Victor, a series of 20 papers is not quite unbeatable. The Robertson-Seymour series on the graph minor theorem is now up to "Graph minors XXIII" (to appear). And this is all around one theorem! | |
| Jun 21, 2010 at 7:51 | comment | added | Victor Protsak | Jahrbuch Database gives 93 papers, the last one being Notes on the theory of series. XX: Generalizations of a theorem of Paley, Quart. J. Math. (Oxford Ser.) 8, 161-171. Published: 1937. I'd say that a series of 20 papers is in a league of its own. | |
| Jun 21, 2010 at 6:28 | comment | added | John Stillwell | I think that Hardy & Littlewood have at most 93 joint papers (I couldn't get the same count each time I tried in Hardy's Collected Papers), so that seems to rule them out of contention. | |
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| Jun 21, 2010 at 0:07 | comment | added | Pete L. Clark | They seem like a strong contender, yes. I avoided them above because I was doing a MathSciNet search, for which they are too early. But the foreword to Littlewood's Miscellany, written by Bollabas, claims that they had 100 joint papers. I would like to see an actual list, but I'm upvoting your answer for now. (If this turns out to be the answer, what about mathematicians born after 1900?) | |
| Jun 20, 2010 at 23:59 | history | answered | lhf | CC BY-SA 2.5 |