Timeline for Why do branches of math vary in proof styles and what category are different branches in?
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| Nov 8, 2009 at 9:15 | vote | accept | Kim Greene | ||
| Nov 5, 2009 at 7:17 | comment | added | Kim Morrison | The problem here is that the question is perhaps "subjective and argumentative", which we've been taking as grounds to closing. Mathoverflow isn't suitable for questions that require or deserve discussion. I won't close, because I actually like the question. Someone else may! | |
| Nov 5, 2009 at 4:41 | comment | added | Kim Greene | @Theo: I do not think that it is any more subjective than a question about what is a 'good' book for learning analysis. I think this is a question with real consequences for people learning and some people find one style of math easier than the other. I also don't think there is evidence in the comments so far of big differences in how people are interpreting the question as one would expect if it was very subjective. | |
| Nov 5, 2009 at 4:18 | comment | added | Theo Johnson-Freyd | I'm sorry, I still don't like the question, maybe for the same reason Kevin doesn't. It seems like a very good "discussion" question, but I don't think MathOverflow is well-suited for discussions. (And I'd need to be shown a fair amount of evidence before I believe that whole branches of mathematics are uniform and classified by their rates of "efficient", "global", or "ad hoc" proofs. I've seen plenty of results within the same area with different proofs that vary on these qualities.) | |
| Nov 5, 2009 at 2:34 | answer | added | MLevi | timeline score: 1 | |
| Nov 5, 2009 at 2:17 | answer | added | Jason Dyer | timeline score: 3 | |
| Nov 5, 2009 at 0:38 | answer | added | HJRW | timeline score: 5 | |
| Nov 5, 2009 at 0:32 | comment | added | Kim Greene | I edited it. I hope it sounds less biased now. | |
| Nov 5, 2009 at 0:31 | history | edited | Kim Greene | CC BY-SA 2.5 |
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| Nov 5, 2009 at 0:18 | comment | added | Kevin H. Lin | -1. I don't like this question. It's way too subjective, and seems to be (implicitly or maybe not-so-implicitly) based on the assumption that being "more ad hoc" is necessarily a bad thing. | |
| Nov 4, 2009 at 22:38 | history | asked | Kim Greene | CC BY-SA 2.5 |