Timeline for On Mathematical Analysis of MathSciNet & MathOverflow
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| Jun 26, 2019 at 6:16 | comment | added | Martin Sleziak | Another related thread on meta: Papers, articles, books and other resources discussing MathOverflow. | |
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| May 29, 2018 at 8:29 | history | edited | Morteza Azad | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| May 28, 2018 at 23:40 | comment | added | YCor | @MortezaAzad they're perfectly aware of this, and I don't think they consider this as a problem. They like to keep the right to allow who they like to do such searches. Possibly once a free database will exist, but at least the web has been existing for more than 20 years and there's none at the moment. | |
| May 28, 2018 at 20:00 | comment | added | Morteza Azad | @YCor Indeed it is a big deal! Does anybody here know any MathOverflow user in charge of the MathSciNet database so he can draw their attention to this problem? I think it doesn't seem ethically sound to prevent mathematicians from analyzing their own community for free or at least at an affordable price. Maybe by some mutual interactions between math community and MathSciNet database admins, a solution to this problem could be found. | |
| May 28, 2018 at 9:24 | comment | added | YCor | One big issue with MathSciNet is that AMS restricts the access to the database, which doesn't allow arbitrary users (including with institutional access) to make deep statistical studies. | |
| May 28, 2018 at 8:53 | answer | added | Glorfindel | timeline score: 23 | |
| May 28, 2018 at 6:59 | comment | added | Morteza Azad | @GerryMyerson (+1) Thanks for linking to the Meta thread, Gerry! Maybe a more mathematical version of the mentioned Meta post was best suited for MO (so that I could find it in my pre-posting search). Initially, I had some doubts deciding where the appropriate place for posting this question is, Main or Meta! The OP is a Meta question in some sense because it is asking about MathOverflow. However, when I finalized the post I found it suitable enough for the main forum as it is asking a specific question about certain types of math papers and not even eligible for the soft-question tag. | |
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| May 28, 2018 at 3:45 | comment | added | Morteza Azad | @Kimball (+1) These universal numerical laws which appear out of nowhere in data sets are just amazing! Your comment revived my hope to find the pattern governing the set of MathOverflow users' reputation points! I think, there must be some pattern because the reputation score is not accumulated randomly. Certain underlying laws of the community combined with users' natural human behavior possibly gives rise to one such statistical law to appear in this particular set of numbers. Maybe some statistician can take a look at them, apply some pattern finding algorithms and discover something! | |
| May 28, 2018 at 1:54 | comment | added | Kimball | Naturally occurring numbers often follow Benford's law rather than Zipf's law. | |
| May 27, 2018 at 23:46 | comment | added | Gerry Myerson | See also the discussion at meta.mathoverflow.net/questions/1894/is-mo-connected | |
| May 27, 2018 at 20:30 | comment | added | Morteza Azad | Another related instance of real-world appearance of power-law distribution is presented in Sean Gourley's TED talk entitled "The mathematics of war" in which he describes how the number of casualties in ANY war could be explained via a unique power law distribution equation regardless of the nature of conflict and the number and type of the involved factions! | |
| May 27, 2018 at 20:20 | answer | added | Timothy Chow | timeline score: 21 | |
| May 27, 2018 at 19:44 | comment | added | Morteza Azad | @TimothyChow (+1) Very nice, Tim! This piece of research is indeed of the type that I am looking for in my question. So why not posting it as an answer to this reference request question?! | |
| May 27, 2018 at 19:07 | comment | added | Morteza Azad | @JosephO'Rourke The Meta post No. 2 is closely related to what I have in mind for a possible mathematical model of MathOverflow via graph theory where the users (tags) are weighted vertexes depending on their reputation (number of included posts) and are connected to each other via weighted edges which indicate their interaction (intersection). There are various interesting parameters to investigate in such a graph. For example, its minimal dominating set may reveal the most influential contributors (topics) in the community. | |
| May 27, 2018 at 19:04 | answer | added | Carlo Beenakker | timeline score: 35 | |
| May 27, 2018 at 18:30 | comment | added | Timothy Chow | Not sure if this is the sort of thing you're looking for, but there was a paper in the Notices of the AMS back in 2010 on the issue of topical bias in generalist mathematical journals. ams.org/notices/201011/rtx101101421p.pdf | |
| May 27, 2018 at 18:16 | comment | added | Joseph O'Rourke | Tangentially related: (1) How many mathematicians are there? (2) An interactive graph of MathOverflow tags. (3) National Academies of Science, "Important Trends in the Mathematical Sciences," The Mathematical Sciences in 2025. | |
| May 27, 2018 at 18:06 | history | edited | Morteza Azad | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| May 27, 2018 at 17:58 | history | edited | Morteza Azad | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| May 27, 2018 at 17:46 | comment | added | Morteza Azad | Not to mention that the total reputation in MathOverflow doesn't seem to be distributed in a Zipfian way because the reputation of the 1st person is not twice the size of the second one. Maybe one needs to compare users' in the same category (say those who post in topology or set theory) or consider different power-law distributions. | |
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