Timeline for Seemingly emergent structures in mathematics
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| Apr 28, 2011 at 14:29 | comment | added | Charles Staats | This may fall under the Ramsey theory answer, but the fact that a random, countably infinite graph has its isomorphism class determined with probability one (the Rado graph) seems like it might qualify. | |
| Apr 28, 2011 at 13:09 | comment | added | Steven Gubkin | See also mathoverflow.net/questions/6707/… and mathoverflow.net/questions/5357/… | |
| Apr 28, 2011 at 9:59 | answer | added | Simon Lyons | timeline score: 2 | |
| Apr 28, 2011 at 9:51 | answer | added | Steve Huntsman | timeline score: 0 | |
| Apr 28, 2011 at 9:47 | answer | added | Steve Huntsman | timeline score: 3 | |
| Apr 28, 2011 at 9:24 | answer | added | John Stillwell | timeline score: 9 | |
| Apr 28, 2011 at 9:01 | answer | added | Chris Heunen | timeline score: 5 | |
| Apr 28, 2011 at 9:00 | comment | added | S. Carnahan♦ | It looks like you might be interested in universality phenomena. T. Tao has written a nontechnical article: terrytao.wordpress.com/2010/09/14/… | |
| Apr 28, 2011 at 8:00 | comment | added | Roland Bacher | It seems to me that the unexpected is often a hallmark of good mathematics. Obvious (and technically easy) results are called exercices. | |
| Apr 28, 2011 at 7:07 | answer | added | zeb | timeline score: 1 | |
| Apr 28, 2011 at 6:27 | comment | added | Qiaochu Yuan | I'm not sure I understand the distinction between structure where it wasn't expected and structure that seems to "arise from a vacuum." Could you give some more examples or non-examples? | |
| Apr 28, 2011 at 5:52 | history | asked | Ramsey | CC BY-SA 3.0 |