Timeline for Simple motivation to study arithmetic geometry
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| Aug 17, 2022 at 12:50 | answer | added | KConrad | timeline score: 10 | |
| Aug 16, 2022 at 14:43 | comment | added | Timothy Chow | @rfloc It's easier to find examples where advanced techniques are used to prove that a solution does not exist. In principle, if a solution exists then you can find it by brute-force search, without any advanced techniques. However, in practice, if the smallest solution is very large, then you'll need some theory to find it. That's what some of these examples are illustrating. | |
| Aug 16, 2022 at 10:04 | answer | added | Timothy Chow | timeline score: 6 | |
| Aug 16, 2022 at 9:34 | comment | added | Z. M | @WillSawin Modernity (instead of recentness) does not seem to be even a total order. | |
| Aug 16, 2022 at 7:41 | history | became hot network question | |||
| Aug 16, 2022 at 6:10 | answer | added | David Loeffler | timeline score: 12 | |
| Aug 16, 2022 at 0:07 | comment | added | rfloc | @WillSawin Something relatively recent and that is well explained in a textbook. | |
| Aug 15, 2022 at 23:55 | comment | added | Sam Hopkins | Somewhat related is mathoverflow.net/questions/227713/… (which got made into a "fruit meme" - see quora.com/…) | |
| Aug 15, 2022 at 23:46 | comment | added | Will Sawin | How modern do you consider "most modern"? Technically as soon as a new technique is discovered the last one is no longer the most modern. | |
| Aug 15, 2022 at 23:39 | history | asked | rfloc | CC BY-SA 4.0 |