Timeline for Breakthroughs in mathematics in 2021
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| Dec 27, 2023 at 20:26 | review | Close votes | |||
| Dec 29, 2023 at 0:02 | |||||
| Dec 25, 2023 at 22:34 | answer | added | Stefan Kohl♦ | timeline score: 1 | |
| Jan 16, 2022 at 18:10 | comment | added | Quarto Bendir | It's definitely possible to learn something from the answers to this kind of question, but it's worth bearing in mind that answers are pretty much limited to various papers in one or two prestige journals, and/or those papers which Quanta writers chose to pay attention to. So it's hard to get a balanced perspective. | |
| Jan 9, 2022 at 19:50 | answer | added | Abdelmalek Abdesselam | timeline score: 11 | |
| Jan 9, 2022 at 1:48 | answer | added | Timothy Chow | timeline score: 22 | |
| Dec 29, 2021 at 3:56 | comment | added | user551504 | From the answers, it seems that a good way to notice important results outside of our specialty is to read Quanta magazine | |
| Dec 28, 2021 at 18:29 | answer | added | Bogdan Grechuk | timeline score: 25 | |
| Dec 27, 2021 at 16:52 | answer | added | Dan Ramras | timeline score: 20 | |
| Dec 27, 2021 at 11:48 | comment | added | Nicky Hekster | For a good story on The Year in Math and Computer Science, see also here | |
| Dec 26, 2021 at 21:00 | comment | added | Timothy Chow | A similar question was asked about ten years ago: Noteworthy achievements in and around 2010? | |
| Dec 25, 2021 at 6:53 | comment | added | C.F.G | What do you mean by important breakthroughs? For understanding my question see these levels in math research: ordinary paper < good quality paper < systematic papers answering some important conjectures < works that lead to a new sub-branch of math (like Ricci flow inside of differential geometry/topology) < works that discover/introduce a new branch of math (such k-theory and category theory) and so on. There is also a breakthrough prize in math. Which one is related to your post? | |
| Dec 25, 2021 at 1:03 | comment | added | Asaf Karagila♦ | @Kimball: We're working on it!!! | |
| Dec 25, 2021 at 0:53 | answer | added | Ricky | timeline score: 40 | |
| Dec 24, 2021 at 23:03 | comment | added | Kimball | Also, 2021 is not over. I still have a week to do something big! | |
| Dec 24, 2021 at 20:26 | history | became hot network question | |||
| Dec 24, 2021 at 19:02 | history | edited | Gerry Myerson | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Dec 24, 2021 at 17:40 | answer | added | James Tuite | timeline score: 32 | |
| Dec 24, 2021 at 15:29 | comment | added | Asaf Karagila♦ | Mathematics tend to be slow. It's rare to see a breakthrough "in that year" go from preprint announcement, to review, to accepted, to actually published. It's not impossible, but those tend to be shorter, smaller, e.g. some counterexample of some finite conjecture. Otherwise, things tend to take time. That's a good thing. | |
| Dec 24, 2021 at 15:07 | history | made wiki | Post Made Community Wiki by Asaf Karagila♦ | ||
| Dec 24, 2021 at 13:16 | answer | added | Carlo Beenakker | timeline score: 52 | |
| Dec 24, 2021 at 13:15 | answer | added | Windom Earle | timeline score: 28 | |
| Dec 24, 2021 at 12:21 | history | asked | Johnny Cage | CC BY-SA 4.0 |