Timeline for How to find Erdős' treasure trove?
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| Aug 1, 2018 at 20:20 | vote | accept | Morteza Azad | ||
| Aug 1, 2018 at 17:37 | history | edited | Morteza Azad | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Aug 1, 2018 at 17:31 | answer | added | Morteza Azad | timeline score: 17 | |
| Jul 31, 2018 at 20:24 | comment | added | Morteza Azad | @ZachTeitler Thanks for reaching out to me via email, Zach! I left you a response concerning your suggestion. :-) | |
| Jul 31, 2018 at 20:15 | comment | added | Morteza Azad | @GerryMyerson Apparently, Georg Cantor's Nachlass is also listed there. It is particularly important because it is said that mysteriously part of Cantor's manuscripts has been disappeared (destroyed? stolen?) during the chaos followed by the Soviet invasion of Germany in 1945! The whole story seems quite strange anyway! | |
| Jul 31, 2018 at 18:54 | comment | added | Timothy Chow | Related MO question: mathoverflow.net/questions/27716/… | |
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| Jul 31, 2018 at 14:20 | comment | added | Morteza Azad | @ZachTeitler (+1) Why not? It would be great if you or any other colleague here inform Ron (and other friends and co-authors of Erdős whom you know in person) about this post and invite them to come here and add some additional information which is not available online. Thanks in advance, Zach! :-) | |
| Jul 31, 2018 at 14:14 | comment | added | Zach Teitler | Send a very polite email to Ron Graham? | |
| Jul 31, 2018 at 12:12 | history | edited | Morteza Azad | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jul 30, 2018 at 23:42 | comment | added | Gerry Myerson | Occasionally, a mathematician's Nachlass will be published. Bolzano's comes to 24 volumes. Their is a Zentralarchiv für Mathematiker-Nachlässe, and a list of what they have at fidmath.de/historisches/liste-der-nachlaesse Typing nachlass* into the title field at Mathscinet yields 85 matches. | |
| Jul 30, 2018 at 23:31 | comment | added | Morteza Azad | @GerryMyerson (+1) Interesting remark, Gerry! Thanks! Apparently, the word is of German origin. As a side question, I wonder how the living mathematicians can use the Nachlasses of their prominent late fellows without violating any ethical academic principle concerning plagiarism. The whole situation also reminds me the not that pleasant theme of the movie "Proof" in which a young mathematician is looking for the possible proof of an important theorem in the manuscripts of a late mathematician. | |
| Jul 30, 2018 at 23:20 | comment | added | Gerry Myerson | The term often used to describe the unpublished work of a deceased mathematician is "Nachlass". A websearch for an Erdos nachlass turned up nothing (once I discounted a book concerning a different Erdos, first name Ernst). | |
| Jul 30, 2018 at 22:18 | history | edited | Morteza Azad | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jul 30, 2018 at 21:26 | history | edited | Morteza Azad | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jul 30, 2018 at 20:43 | comment | added | Carlo Beenakker | I agree and have withdrawn my comment. | |
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| Jul 30, 2018 at 20:35 | comment | added | Morteza Azad | @CarloBeenakker Well, the number of Erdős' publications in various disciplines of mathematics actually indicates that he had such an active beautiful mind. And such amazing people usually have plenty of ideas which due to various reasons (including the lack of time and energy and swift change in their mathematical interests), only a portion of them find their way into the officially published mathematical papers. Most of these ideas, however, end up becoming part of the person's mathematical diary, a set of notes that one takes on a regular basis in order to keep track of his thoughts. | |
| Jul 30, 2018 at 20:34 | answer | added | Carlo Beenakker | timeline score: 34 | |
| Jul 30, 2018 at 20:14 | history | asked | Morteza Azad | CC BY-SA 4.0 |