Timeline for Maiden Names vs. Married Names
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| Sep 2, 2011 at 10:01 | comment | added | Wilberd van der Kallen | @noah The arXiv tries, just like MathSciNet, to identify authors. One just needs to cooperate. | |
| Sep 1, 2011 at 12:38 | vote | accept | J.L. Nelson | ||
| Sep 1, 2011 at 12:35 | vote | accept | J.L. Nelson | ||
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| Aug 31, 2011 at 19:18 | comment | added | user9072 | Thierry, or you have to choose appropriate coauthors. See sbseminar.wordpress.com/2010/02/21/et-al-is-unethical in particular comments 6 and 13. | |
| Aug 31, 2011 at 18:52 | comment | added | Thierry Zell | Noah: Are you suggesting I should change my name to Aardvark? :-) | |
| Aug 31, 2011 at 18:28 | comment | added | Henry Cohn | By the way, for junior candidates an advisor may be able to help with that. "Remember my excellent student Smith? Well, she has changed her name to Jones, so I just wanted to make sure her application doesn't get overlooked." | |
| Aug 31, 2011 at 17:27 | comment | added | Noah Snyder | For faculty positions people are looking through hundreds of applications. Having people recognize your name while they're looking through that list seems like it would be a big deal. Changing names say halfway through a postdoc seems like it could really hurt your chances because you could miss the first cut because someone doesn't put your name on the application together with a mathematician they've heard of. That's what I meant by "brand." | |
| Aug 31, 2011 at 17:21 | history | made wiki | Post Made Community Wiki by François G. Dorais | ||
| Aug 31, 2011 at 17:06 | comment | added | José Figueroa-O'Farrill | I think that with the introduction of public author identifiers, the risk to one's "brand" by changing your name should be greatly diminished. | |
| Aug 31, 2011 at 16:20 | comment | added | Noah Snyder | On a purely cynical note, it's better to pick whichever name comes earlier in the alphabet. | |
| Aug 31, 2011 at 15:25 | comment | added | user9072 | A technical point on MathSciNet: if one goes on the 'author profile page' there is a point 'also published as' catching 'everything' from larger name changes, over different transliterations, to minor variations (given name spelled out vs initial). More generally, MathSciNet distinguishes between the 'author' and the 'name on the publication' one can search for either. This is also important in the other direction for people having the same name as other math. I believe MathSciNet is very good at getting this right without the person getting involved, yet are also interested in corrections. | |
| Aug 31, 2011 at 15:17 | comment | added | Kevin O'Bryant | Sometimes, people even publish under multiple names, using different names for different purposes. Ekhad is an example, although Zeilberger might disagree. I know another (famous) mathematician who uses a pseudonym for papers that s/he considers worthwhile, but not up to the standard of his/her better-known name. | |
| Aug 31, 2011 at 15:15 | comment | added | Noah Snyder | That tradition continued into the MathSciNet era but does not appear to be continuing into the arXiv era. | |
| Aug 31, 2011 at 15:05 | comment | added | Andreas Blass | I agree that there's no set convention. I know of at least one woman who has been married twice but still uses (both for publication and in real life) her first husband's last name. I assume the reason is what Noah pointed out in the second paragraph of his answer. Mathematical Reviews had a tradition of being very careful about identifying names when and only when they refer to the same person; I assume this tradition continues in the MathSciNet era. I think the editors there would be pleased to learn about non-obvious identifications (or non-identifications). | |
| Aug 31, 2011 at 15:00 | comment | added | darij grinberg | I still haven't seen this theorem being called anything other than Nichols-Zoeller! | |
| Aug 31, 2011 at 15:00 | history | edited | Noah Snyder | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Aug 31, 2011 at 14:51 | history | answered | Noah Snyder | CC BY-SA 3.0 |