Timeline for Improvements to one's own theorems
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| Dec 17, 2018 at 21:45 | comment | added | Sylvain JULIEN | I guess this is a side effect of the infamous "publish or perish". Would mathematicians publish incomplete results if they could get rid of this pressure ? | |
| Dec 17, 2018 at 15:06 | comment | added | fedja | Not sure about famous instances, but in general it happens more often than not. I'm guilty myself of publishing three papers of the type "A implies B", "A implies C" (with C trivially implying B), and "A is equivalent to D" (with D trivially stronger than C). The paper "A is equivalent to D under extra assumption Q" was published by somebody else in the meantime. I find nothing wrong with it and I do not think anybody else frowns upon it either. Every time you have something interesting to say, it is OK to say it.If later you can say more and in a better way, just consider yourself lucky :-) | |
| Dec 17, 2018 at 14:33 | comment | added | Lee Mosher | The scenario that you describe does not necessarily render any of the original research article obsolete. For instance, perhaps the proof in the second paper amounts to showing that every P satisfies Q. In fact, I would guess that this is quite common in such scenarios. | |
| Dec 17, 2018 at 14:29 | answer | added | Sam Hopkins | timeline score: 5 | |
| Dec 17, 2018 at 2:31 | history | made wiki | Post Made Community Wiki by Todd Trimble | ||
| Dec 17, 2018 at 1:01 | history | asked | Forever Mozart | CC BY-SA 4.0 |