Timeline for What recent discoveries have amateur mathematicians made?
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| Aug 7 at 11:56 | comment | added | Mark S | Certainly! Terrance Tao has noticed the “comparative advantage” that amateurs may bring. | |
| Jul 15 at 18:43 | comment | added | Timothy Chow | Maybe, but there are some arguable points. Is mxdys really an amateur? Is the contribution a "discovery" or rather a formalization of arguments that were already basically known and just not properly written up? | |
| Jul 15 at 16:12 | comment | added | Mark S | @TimothyChow wouldn't that be a separate answer? | |
| Jul 15 at 16:10 | comment | added | Timothy Chow | In a similar vein, the finishing touches on the proof that BB(5) = 47,176,870 (the 5th busy beaver number) were contributed by an anonymous Coq user called mxdys. | |
| May 31, 2020 at 19:03 | history | edited | Mark S | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
4chan posting to recognition by other mathemeticians was apparantly within a short time.
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| Nov 11, 2018 at 21:26 | history | edited | Mark S | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Oct 28, 2018 at 13:08 | history | edited | Mark S | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
looks like it was noted by Houston at least as early as 2014
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| Oct 27, 2018 at 21:57 | history | edited | Robin Houston | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
Link to Greg Egan’s account of his work; minor wording improvements
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| Oct 27, 2018 at 21:09 | history | edited | Mark S | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| S Oct 27, 2018 at 15:06 | history | answered | Mark S | CC BY-SA 4.0 | |
| S Oct 27, 2018 at 15:06 | history | made wiki | Post Made Community Wiki by Mark S |