Timeline for Proofs that require fundamentally new ways of thinking
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| Jul 26, 2012 at 7:07 | history | edited | Michael Albanese | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
Changed 'modlui' to 'moduli'.
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| Dec 11, 2010 at 5:10 | comment | added | Deane Yang | I fully agree with this. I was a graduate student at Harvard, when Atiyah came and described Donaldson's thesis (Donaldson got his Ph.D. the same year as me). Before that, we all thought we were trying to understand Yang-Mills, because it connected geometric analysis to physics and not because we thought it would prove topological theorems. As I recall it, Atiyah said that when Donaldson first proposed what he wanted to do, Atiyah was skeptical and tried to convince Donaldson to work on something less risky. | |
| Dec 10, 2010 at 8:39 | history | answered | Sebastian | CC BY-SA 2.5 |