Timeline for Is a come back to mathematical research possible?
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| Sep 5, 2022 at 9:23 | answer | added | Thomas Sauvaget | timeline score: 9 | |
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| Apr 25, 2022 at 7:49 | history | edited | Denis Serre | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Apr 25, 2022 at 7:24 | comment | added | Roland Bacher | A (not literal) quote by the pianist Arthur Rubinstein : "I am aware if I do not practize for one day, my dog is aware if I stop for two days and my wife is aware after an interruption of three days." I guess it is similar with mathematics, up to replacing the dog by a cat. | |
| Apr 25, 2022 at 0:13 | answer | added | Todd Trimble | timeline score: 29 | |
| Apr 24, 2022 at 15:36 | comment | added | Hollis Williams | Definitely the former, why would a good mathematician fry their brain working in public life? | |
| Apr 24, 2022 at 15:03 | answer | added | Hollis Williams | timeline score: 2 | |
| Apr 24, 2022 at 7:38 | answer | added | liuyao | timeline score: 2 | |
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| Apr 23, 2022 at 18:34 | answer | added | user234212323 | timeline score: 11 | |
| Apr 23, 2022 at 14:15 | answer | added | epoche | timeline score: 4 | |
| Apr 23, 2022 at 5:09 | history | made wiki | Post Made Community Wiki by Asaf Karagila♦ | ||
| Apr 23, 2022 at 2:42 | comment | added | bob | In any line of work it’s hard to get going after a two week break, not just math FWIW. | |
| Apr 22, 2022 at 23:54 | comment | added | Fernando Muro | Of course yes. I know several cases of people that returned successfully to academia after a while in industry. | |
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| Apr 22, 2022 at 20:10 | comment | added | YCor | I think Ralph Strebel stopped maths between approx. 1990 and 2010, resuming when retiring from teaching. | |
| Apr 22, 2022 at 18:59 | answer | added | Yuval Peres | timeline score: 14 | |
| Apr 22, 2022 at 18:45 | comment | added | onefishtwofish | Villani's case is obviously quite exceptional, given his talent. I'm sure he could easily return if he wanted to. At the very least, he probably has a bunch of unpublished results that he could write up. Could he return to his previous level, who knows... | |
| Apr 22, 2022 at 18:32 | history | edited | Denis Serre | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Apr 22, 2022 at 18:25 | answer | added | efs | timeline score: 22 | |
| Apr 22, 2022 at 18:23 | comment | added | JP McCarthy | The bar room question is whether mathematicians are wasting their time in public life or wasting their time in mathematics. | |
| Apr 22, 2022 at 18:17 | comment | added | Vladimir Dotsenko | I thought that Jim Simons did resume maths successfully after a long break, no? | |
| Apr 22, 2022 at 18:07 | comment | added | Andy Putman | It's easy enough to give plenty of examples of people with 4-5 year gaps in their publication record (from e.g. being department chair, or having family crises) who then go on to do good work. But it's hard to know how little math they were doing -- maybe they had projects, but they moved slowly and they didn't do any writing. | |
| Apr 22, 2022 at 17:40 | history | edited | Thomas Sauvaget | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Apr 22, 2022 at 17:35 | comment | added | Sridhar Ramesh | Each next generation's great mathematicians start off with a couple decades of not being active researchers. I don't see why it should be any easier for them than for someone with years of existing experience. | |
| Apr 22, 2022 at 17:01 | comment | added | leo monsaingeon | As do men, related to fatherhood. Not as often as one may whish, though. | |
| Apr 22, 2022 at 16:00 | comment | added | Denis Serre | @FedorPetrov Good point, of course. | |
| Apr 22, 2022 at 15:33 | comment | added | Fedor Petrov | Of course. Many women make a mortherhood related break, and return succesfully. | |
| Apr 22, 2022 at 14:57 | comment | added | leo monsaingeon | More recently (and part of m'y community) such an example Is Nicola Gigli, Who came back to a top level in research after several years outside of academia | |
| Apr 22, 2022 at 14:17 | answer | added | Carlo Beenakker | timeline score: 48 | |
| Apr 22, 2022 at 14:08 | history | asked | Denis Serre | CC BY-SA 4.0 |