Timeline for Do we need more than the periods? [closed]
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| Nov 4, 2011 at 1:05 | vote | accept | David Roberts♦ | ||
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| Jul 3, 2011 at 3:38 | history | closed |
David Roberts♦ Qiaochu Yuan Aaron Meyerowitz Tom Church Todd Trimble |
not a real question | |
| Jul 2, 2011 at 21:42 | history | edited | David Roberts♦ | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jul 2, 2011 at 15:59 | comment | added | Steven Landsburg | Ah, got it: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ring_of_periods | |
| Jul 2, 2011 at 15:57 | comment | added | Steven Landsburg | What is a period? | |
| Jul 2, 2011 at 12:02 | comment | added | user9072 | Agreeing with Todd Trimble, and even more, to the extent they are meaningful it seems to me an odd partition for this type of question. Say, very vaguely, it seems much harder to me to do all kinds of Applied Analysis without complex and real numbers than various parts of Number Theory. | |
| Jul 2, 2011 at 11:43 | comment | added | Todd Trimble | I'm finding "applied mathematics" and "weak forms of pure mathematics" pretty vague or not terribly meaningful signifiers. | |
| Jul 2, 2011 at 6:47 | answer | added | Stefan Geschke | timeline score: 3 | |
| Jul 2, 2011 at 2:46 | comment | added | David Roberts♦ | Heh, alright, Qiaochu and Cam. Serves me right for being slack. The 'weak forms of pure mathematics' par of the question still stands, though. :) | |
| Jul 2, 2011 at 2:16 | comment | added | Ramsey | There once was a field named $\mathbb{Q}$, whose completions had among them "you". Your extension is $\mathbb{C}$, which has periods you see, but is algebraically closed too! (I guess "you" are $\mathbb{R}$ in this off-the-cuff-perhaps-not-even-worthy-of-a-comment-but-somehow-it's-what-I'm-going-with-limerick response). | |
| Jul 2, 2011 at 1:43 | comment | added | Qiaochu Yuan | The Wikipedia article says that it's not known whether $e$ is a period or not. I daresay $e$ is useful for applied mathematics... | |
| Jul 2, 2011 at 1:40 | comment | added | David Roberts♦ | Just an idle question... | |
| Jul 2, 2011 at 1:40 | history | asked | David Roberts♦ | CC BY-SA 3.0 |