Timeline for Cures for mathematician's block (as in writer's block)
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| Sep 3, 2012 at 3:25 | comment | added | Douglas Zare | Or perhaps the $1\%$ who did collaborate were able to write about $100$ times as many papers, on average. | |
| Dec 27, 2009 at 13:44 | comment | added | Emil | @Ben: this doesn't mean that the authors did not work alone - it just means they pooled their results. | |
| Nov 8, 2009 at 0:38 | history | edited | Deane Yang | CC BY-SA 2.5 |
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| Nov 7, 2009 at 23:01 | comment | added | Jose Capco | It may become a bit difficult finding someone to collaborate with, especially if you are in a very specific field. Maybe we should start a new community wiki on ways mathematicians find collaborating partners. | |
| Nov 7, 2009 at 21:55 | comment | added | Ben Webster♦ | "The vast majority of mathematicians do most of their work alone..." This is a pretty bold claim, and I don't think a very accurate one; ten years ago, more than half of papers indexed by MathSciNet were coauthored, and the number was trending upward sharply. ams.org/notices/200501/fea-grossman.pdf | |
| Nov 7, 2009 at 18:50 | history | answered | Deane Yang | CC BY-SA 2.5 |