Timeline for Papers of the masters translated to English in one location
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| Nov 30, 2022 at 2:43 | history | made wiki | Post Made Community Wiki by David Roberts♦ | ||
| Nov 18, 2022 at 20:10 | comment | added | Nate Eldredge | @Gupta: At some point the "classics" become less cited because they are common knowledge, or because everyone learned them from a later book or other secondary source. For instance we don't cite Newton or Leibniz every time we use the fundamental theorem of calculus. | |
| Nov 16, 2022 at 19:08 | comment | added | Carl-Fredrik Nyberg Brodda | @Gupta I am not sure I believe your claim "these oldies are the most cited/referenced/used". What data did you use to come to this conclusion? | |
| Nov 16, 2022 at 16:55 | comment | added | Peter Taylor | @Gupta, for locating asides which mention a theorem, something like Dickson's History of the Theory of Numbers may be more useful than a repository of the original papers. Or, perhaps more accurately, the repository may not be very useful without a similar History to serve as an organised index of the results. | |
| Nov 16, 2022 at 16:46 | comment | added | Gupta | I realize arxiv is sorta what I'm talking about here but I could provide a bit more utility by organizing thing. | |
| Nov 16, 2022 at 16:44 | comment | added | Gupta | Newer research will likely reference new research but in general these oldies are the most cited/referenced/used simply because they've had far more time to simmer. The point is that if one of them came up with some equation or expression and it is used in a book as part of a proof but not proved it can be hard to located where it came from. The book may or may not give a cite but it still is not easy to locate. Having a single entry point in to all the greats would help in many ways. It would also help with translation as one could see what hasn't been translated. | |
| Nov 16, 2022 at 16:40 | comment | added | Ben McKay | I am not so sure they are referenced so frequently today. Researchers mostly reference the current research literature. | |
| Nov 16, 2022 at 16:38 | comment | added | Gupta | Maybe we need a list of all the papers that can be found and centralize them(or put them in a torrent)? I'm talking about all the major players since they are referenced the most. | |
| Nov 16, 2022 at 16:34 | history | answered | Ben McKay | CC BY-SA 4.0 |