Timeline for Is a come back to mathematical research possible?
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| Dec 12, 2022 at 10:15 | comment | added | Ho Man-Ho | I think James Simons is a very special case, in the sense that he is very talented. And I doubt if he had not thought about math before 2008. I mean, differential characters is an example (and probably the first) of differential cohomology, and in the early 2000, interests in differential cohomology (or more accurately differential K-theory) "suddenly" arise. I think in the mind of James Simons, he always wanted to characterize differential cohomology using the hexagonal diagram back in 1985. | |
| Apr 26, 2022 at 2:03 | comment | added | GH from MO | @LSpice Thank you. I estimate the net worth of top mathematicians I know (including Fields medalists, Wolf Prize and Abel Prize laureates) to be between 1 million and 10 million USD. | |
| Apr 26, 2022 at 1:48 | comment | added | LSpice | @GHfromMO, per Wikipedia, "Net worth is the value of all the non-financial and financial assets owned by an individual or institution minus the value of all its outstanding liabilities." | |
| Apr 25, 2022 at 0:58 | comment | added | GH from MO | @PeterLeFanuLumsdaine Sorry, but what does it mean that "the net worth of X is Y"? | |
| Apr 23, 2022 at 19:44 | comment | added | Vladimir Dotsenko | @AndyPutman I did not look through all that list, but a quick look at the authors with 20+ publications in Annals reveals that almost all of them are long dead. I did not look further down. | |
| Apr 23, 2022 at 5:09 | history | made wiki | Post Made Community Wiki by Asaf Karagila♦ | ||
| Apr 22, 2022 at 20:45 | comment | added | Andy Putman | I think that joke doesn't quite work. If you look at mathscinet's entry for the Annals, it lists 100 authors with 8 or more papers in it. I am not good enough with scripting to count authors with at least 3 papers, but it must be a substantial number. Since Simon's net worth (according to wikipedia) is $25.2 billion, the average must be well under one billion. See here: mathscinet.ams.org/mathscinet/search/journal/… | |
| Apr 22, 2022 at 19:32 | comment | added | Yuval Peres | I was focusing on Mathematical work, but since you mention this: How many mathematicians have at least 3 papers in the Annals? | |
| Apr 22, 2022 at 19:13 | comment | added | Peter LeFanu Lumsdaine | This reminds me of the following, which I heard from a colleague, some years back (details may not be quite accurate): How much do you think is the average net worth of top mathematicians? Of course, “top” is subjective; let’s draw an arbitrary line, say, mathematicians with 3 papers in Annals. And net worth is a crude figure, of course, but, very roughly… well, to start with, is it over a billion dollars, say? Surely no, you say. But no — turns out it’s over a billion! Maths must be a pretty lucrative career… The explanation here is Jim Simons. | |
| Apr 22, 2022 at 18:59 | history | answered | Yuval Peres | CC BY-SA 4.0 |