Timeline for How many mathematicians are there?
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| Jun 23 at 7:55 | history | protected | Stefan Kohl♦ | ||
| Jan 24 at 10:33 | comment | added | Jukka Kohonen | Not just the Drake equation (@Ryan), sometimes one feels that the Fermi paradox applies. | |
| Jan 24 at 0:51 | review | Close votes | |||
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| Feb 12, 2020 at 12:44 | answer | added | Jim Stasheff | timeline score: 2 | |
| May 31, 2018 at 12:38 | comment | added | Asaf Karagila♦ | If we modify the "Single electron universe" to mathematicians, we could argue that all mathematicians are the same up to isomorphism and therefore in practice all mathematicians are instances of the same mathematicians rippling through the Quantum Mathematical Field. In such case, I propose the canonical mathematician to be von Neumann. | |
| Oct 22, 2017 at 0:39 | review | Close votes | |||
| Oct 23, 2017 at 6:23 | |||||
| Mar 18, 2016 at 23:24 | comment | added | j0equ1nn | @GeorgesElencwajg I did not take Suvrit's comment as sarcasm, maybe a little tongue in cheek, but not a serious criticism. | |
| Oct 25, 2014 at 7:26 | comment | added | Sylvain JULIEN | Too few of them. | |
| Oct 24, 2014 at 23:11 | comment | added | Włodzimierz Holsztyński | There are 831 MO user pages + 5 participants on page 832. Thus the number of mathematicians is: $\ 831*36 + 5\ =\ \mathbf {29921}.\ \ $ That's it! :-) | |
| Oct 24, 2014 at 23:06 | comment | added | Włodzimierz Holsztyński | There are mathematicians in different sense: 1. mth. PhD 2.mth research publication 3.referred to by MR 4.listed by MGP ... There are errors, they partially cancel out, one gets an idea in one way or another. I'd also consider a recognized mathematician: independently refereed to her/his mth research by 10 or more different mathematicians (this is not circular). | |
| Oct 24, 2014 at 21:47 | comment | added | Steven Gubkin | @RyanBudney I looked at this comment thread and thought "Wow, Ryan Budney is on a roll!". Then I saw that your two comments were $3$ years apart... | |
| Dec 8, 2012 at 16:30 | answer | added | Alexandre Eremenko | timeline score: 31 | |
| Aug 22, 2012 at 11:16 | comment | added | Georges Elencwajg | This question has been closed, then reopened. There is a thread on meta about that. | |
| Aug 21, 2012 at 16:18 | answer | added | Kevin Walker | timeline score: 12 | |
| Aug 20, 2012 at 15:27 | comment | added | Georges Elencwajg | @suvrit: I don't see why this question is a sign of immaturity. I have opened a thread in meta where you are welcome to explain your conception of maturity. | |
| Aug 20, 2012 at 14:49 | history | reopened |
Georges Elencwajg Kevin Walker Benjamin Steinberg Asaf Karagila♦ Emerton |
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| Aug 18, 2012 at 19:49 | history | closed |
Ryan Budney Suvrit Mark Meckes user9072 Yemon Choi |
no longer relevant | |
| Aug 18, 2012 at 19:33 | comment | added | Suvrit | wow between 2009 and now MO has changed (matured) a lot!! | |
| Aug 18, 2012 at 19:24 | comment | added | Ryan Budney | Doug, the answer is yes. I know several completely bald mathematicians. | |
| Jan 9, 2011 at 23:02 | comment | added | shuhalo | Do theoretical computer scientist, who approached the topic from C.S., count as mathematicians? What about theoretical biologist, physicist, simulation sciences? | |
| Mar 4, 2010 at 4:53 | comment | added | Douglas S. Stones | On a related topic: does there exist two mathematicians with the same number of hairs on their heads? | |
| Nov 18, 2009 at 22:56 | vote | accept | Georges Elencwajg | ||
| Nov 18, 2009 at 22:56 | vote | accept | Georges Elencwajg | ||
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| Nov 17, 2009 at 14:20 | answer | added | Kevin O'Bryant | timeline score: 18 | |
| Nov 14, 2009 at 15:32 | comment | added | Michael Lugo | Presumably one could use MathSciNet in some way to estimate the number of research mathematicians. | |
| Nov 14, 2009 at 9:28 | answer | added | Thomas Sauvaget | timeline score: 44 | |
| Nov 14, 2009 at 8:45 | answer | added | Jose Capco | timeline score: 25 | |
| Nov 14, 2009 at 8:35 | comment | added | Ryan Budney | Time to break out the Drake equation. | |
| Nov 14, 2009 at 8:27 | history | asked | Georges Elencwajg | CC BY-SA 2.5 |