Timeline for Examples of theorems arising from many authors' work
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| Sep 29, 2010 at 5:42 | answer | added | Andy Putman | timeline score: 7 | |
| Sep 29, 2010 at 2:03 | answer | added | Felipe Voloch | timeline score: 3 | |
| Sep 29, 2010 at 0:39 | answer | added | Tony Huynh | timeline score: 2 | |
| Sep 28, 2010 at 23:21 | history | reopened |
user3456 Colin Reid John Stillwell Tony Huynh Yemon Choi |
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| Sep 28, 2010 at 23:14 | comment | added | Tony Huynh | @JBL: done: tea.mathoverflow.net/discussion/687/… | |
| Sep 28, 2010 at 18:28 | comment | added | JBL | Now that the question has been completely rewritten, perhaps someone should start a meta thread to attract attention for unclosing. | |
| Sep 28, 2010 at 17:13 | history | edited | Colin Reid | CC BY-SA 2.5 |
Changed question to something more useful
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| Sep 28, 2010 at 16:53 | comment | added | Colin Reid | On reflection, I agree. Perhaps I should instead have asked something more concrete, such as what are some examples of important theorems that can't be boiled down to the work of one or two big names. The classification of finite simple groups would be an obvious example here - it seems unlikely that it would ever have been proved in a world with very few mathematicians, even if they were all brilliant. | |
| Sep 28, 2010 at 16:00 | history | closed |
Martin Brandenburg Robin Chapman Steve Huntsman Qiaochu Yuan Tony Huynh |
not constructive | |
| Sep 28, 2010 at 15:56 | comment | added | Martin Brandenburg | Exemplar for "subjective and argumentative" ;). Perhaps every mathematician should do it's best and not ponder what would happen without him ;). | |
| Sep 28, 2010 at 15:55 | comment | added | Alicia Garcia-Raboso | This question seems too discussion-y to me. I think it is more appropiate for other fora. | |
| Sep 28, 2010 at 15:45 | history | asked | Colin Reid | CC BY-SA 2.5 |