Timeline for What are examples of (collections of) papers which "close" a field?
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| Dec 11, 2019 at 12:35 | comment | added | Alexandre Eremenko | "A good mathematical joke is better then a dozen mediocre papers" (J. E. Littlewood, A Mathematician's Miscelany). | |
| Dec 6, 2019 at 17:13 | comment | added | bob | Makes sense, and trust me I'm all for fun. But I kind of hate that the top voted real answer is #2...just seems wrong somehow... Oh well, up to the community I guess. ¯_(ツ)_/¯ | |
| Dec 6, 2019 at 3:16 | comment | added | user21820 | @bob: I suspect a lot of mathematicians want to post it as an answer, just because mathematicians like some fun you know. | |
| Dec 6, 2019 at 0:07 | comment | added | Master | This answer is the Platonic Ideal of MathOverflow answers. | |
| Dec 5, 2019 at 19:25 | comment | added | bob | This is funny, but wouldn't it be better as a comment since it doesn't really answer the question? If the current comments get deleted, people coming to this answer will have to figure out on their own that it's a joke, or ask an endless cycle of "explain this answer" questions in the comments. (to be clear I'm not against jokes at all, i love them, just not sure this type of answer is in the spirit of SE?) | |
| Dec 5, 2019 at 19:07 | comment | added | R.P. | @FabianRöling That's 47 (now actually 54 and counting) mathematicians desperately looking for a sense of humor... | |
| Dec 5, 2019 at 18:45 | review | Low quality posts | |||
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| Dec 5, 2019 at 18:20 | history | edited | Vivek Shende | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
now that the joke is explained in the comments, I removed the explanation from the main text
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| Dec 5, 2019 at 18:12 | comment | added | RaphaelB4 | And what about "completed" a field, something like the set theory construction of $\mathbb{R}$? | |
| Dec 5, 2019 at 18:05 | comment | added | Stanley Yao Xiao | @FabianRöling it's a play on words that perhaps only makes sense in English. The original question asks for papers which "closed fields", which in context means papers which essentially settled all pertinent questions in a mathematical area, leading to said area's death. However, 'field' in English also means a mathematical field (i.e., $\mathbb{R}, \mathbb{C}$ etc), and the cited paper proved that all fields have a unique algebraic closure up to isomorphism, hence 'closing' all fields. | |
| S Dec 5, 2019 at 15:15 | history | suggested | user7761803 | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
Add explanation (in smaller text)
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| Dec 5, 2019 at 13:51 | review | Suggested edits | |||
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| Dec 5, 2019 at 13:29 | comment | added | Fabian Röling | Can you elaborate? This answer has 47 upvotes, but I have no idea why. | |
| Dec 5, 2019 at 2:15 | comment | added | David Callan | Doggone it, when is the Steinitz article going to be translated into English? | |
| Dec 4, 2019 at 19:35 | comment | added | Noah Schweber | That's horrible, +1. | |
| S Dec 4, 2019 at 7:38 | history | answered | Vivek Shende | CC BY-SA 4.0 | |
| S Dec 4, 2019 at 7:38 | history | made wiki | Post Made Community Wiki by Vivek Shende |