Timeline for What is the oldest open math problem outside of number theory?
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| Sep 17 at 18:43 | comment | added | Aurel | Number theorists are very much interested in the quantitative variant (how many number fields of given $G$ and discriminant at most $X$ in absolute value), cf Malle's conjecture and work on it. | |
| Sep 16 at 17:27 | comment | added | paul garrett | ... and, after all, who gets to decide what is or isn't "number theory"? :) | |
| Sep 16 at 15:09 | comment | added | Timothy Chow | @WillSawin Thanks for mentioning Zywina; I was unaware of his work but it seems very nice. For what it's worth, when I searched MathSciNet for his name and "inverse Galois" in the title, the hits I got had a primary subject classification of 12 (field theory and polynomials), specifically 12F12 (inverse Galois theory), rather than 11 (number theory). | |
| Sep 16 at 12:33 | comment | added | Will Sawin | Well for example David Zywina has done a lot of work on it. | |
| Sep 15 at 23:20 | comment | added | Timothy Chow | @WillSawin Could be, though in my anecdotal experience, number theorists don't seem to be particularly interested in it, while (for example) group theorists like John Thompson are. | |
| Sep 15 at 23:14 | comment | added | Will Sawin | This problem would almost always be considered part of number theory. | |
| Sep 15 at 22:56 | history | answered | Timothy Chow | CC BY-SA 4.0 |