Timeline for Lesser known examples of perseverance with a successful ending [closed]
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| Sep 29, 2019 at 21:29 | history | closed |
YCor Steven Landsburg Ivan Izmestiev R W Yemon Choi |
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| Sep 29, 2019 at 21:17 | history | made wiki | Post Made Community Wiki by Todd Trimble | ||
| Sep 29, 2019 at 21:06 | comment | added | MyNinthAccount | If the examples require the virtual exclusion of working on other problems during the "megalomaniac" period, then Wiles might not be an example really. Perelman and Zhang would be though. | |
| Sep 29, 2019 at 20:55 | comment | added | MyNinthAccount | Stark famously told Michigan he was going to prove the Class Number One problem when he took a tenure-track(?) job there. Some years later they had farmed him out to the Dearborn(?) branch campus before he proved successful. de Branges and the Bierberach conjecture is another example. | |
| Sep 29, 2019 at 20:37 | answer | added | Timothy Chow | timeline score: 2 | |
| Sep 29, 2019 at 20:23 | comment | added | Wojowu | Artin reciprocity would count if not for the fact it took "only" 3 years. You can find Artin's recollection on page 18 in Milne's notes on CFT | |
| Sep 29, 2019 at 19:38 | answer | added | Aaron Meyerowitz | timeline score: 6 | |
| Sep 29, 2019 at 19:08 | comment | added | Francesco Polizzi | What do you mean by "lesser known?" For instance, General Relativity (developed by Einstein during 11 years of work) is ok for you? | |
| Sep 29, 2019 at 18:57 | answer | added | Carlo Beenakker | timeline score: 7 | |
| Sep 29, 2019 at 18:06 | comment | added | Yemon Choi | I want to echo @StevenLandsburg's comment. I also think that most mathematics is not driven by "here is an end goal and we will work for years and years to get it" but by a sense of exploration or desire for improvement. People study operator theory for the sake of understanding operators on Hilbert spaces, not "to solve such-and-such's conjecture" | |
| Sep 29, 2019 at 17:50 | comment | added | Archie | @Moderators : given the negative comments, of course do feel free to close or delete this question if it does not fit MO. | |
| Sep 29, 2019 at 17:47 | comment | added | Neal | Does graduating count? :) | |
| Sep 29, 2019 at 17:44 | comment | added | YCor | @Archie data? this is so vague that the discussion is pointless. And reducing "great results" to "theorems" is overly reductive. | |
| Sep 29, 2019 at 17:25 | history | edited | Archie | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Sep 29, 2019 at 17:18 | comment | added | Will Sawin | @StevenLandsburg The best example in recent times might be annals.math.princeton.edu/2017/185-1/p08 whose first online version (quomodocumque.files.wordpress.com/2016/05/cap-set.pdf) was posted just 1 week after the techniques used in it became available (in arxiv.org/abs/1605.01506). | |
| Sep 29, 2019 at 17:01 | comment | added | Archie | @StevenLandsburg : have most really required 6 years or more ? If so I was very much unaware of that. Is there maybe some data somewhere illustrating it ? | |
| Sep 29, 2019 at 16:58 | comment | added | Steven Landsburg | It might be harder to find examples of papers published in top journals that don't meet this criterion. | |
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| Sep 29, 2019 at 15:47 | history | asked | Archie | CC BY-SA 4.0 |