Timeline for Tricks for getting a creative idea [closed]
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| May 31, 2019 at 0:40 | history | closed |
Carlo Beenakker Andreas Blass Vladimir Dotsenko Timothy Chow Steven Landsburg |
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| May 31, 2019 at 0:38 | comment | added | Timothy Chow | You might be interested in the Tricki. gowers.wordpress.com/2010/09/24/is-the-tricki-dead | |
| May 30, 2019 at 23:45 | comment | added | Vladimir Dotsenko | I don't think this question is appropriate here. I also am not sure if you really understand what you are talking about. That "the crucial point was a lemma" piece is rather odd to me; this is about a proof-writing, about packaging an idea in a form that is user-friendly, rather than about the invention/discovery. I feel that it is not very often that a mathematical argument you see in writing is faithfully representing the process of discovery. | |
| May 30, 2019 at 23:00 | comment | added | paul garrett | Sure, this question is probably impossible to definitively answer, but various "failures to definitively answer" might be interesting. "Interesting" is my criterion for ... almost anything... even if not quite in line with policy. | |
| May 30, 2019 at 22:59 | answer | added | geocalc33 | timeline score: 4 | |
| May 30, 2019 at 22:56 | answer | added | Joseph O'Rourke | timeline score: 4 | |
| May 30, 2019 at 22:25 | review | Close votes | |||
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| May 30, 2019 at 22:19 | comment | added | Gro-Tsen | I'm afraid your question, while interesting, is almost impossible to answer, because even people who have an insightful idea are generally unable to explain, ex post facto, how it came to them. The closest thing to an answer is probably Pólya's book How to solve it. | |
| May 30, 2019 at 22:05 | history | asked | user103598 | CC BY-SA 4.0 |