Timeline for Notable math from those without math PhDs [duplicate]
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| Apr 13, 2017 at 12:58 | history | edited | CommunityBot |
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| Sep 5, 2011 at 16:18 | comment | added | user9072 | Thanks for the response. Regarding relevance to MO, depends on the point of view, but for one interpretation of the site (which is the one I prefer), you are cetainly right. Anyway, you migt enjoy that (semi-serious, by self-declaration of the writer) answer to another question mathoverflow.net/questions/32566/… | |
| Sep 5, 2011 at 9:48 | comment | added | AndrewLMarshall | I'm glad to have the near duplicates pointed out. @quid You're right, I might have asked for mathematicians that have developed a hobby into a noteworthy contribution in a distant science or the humanities, but that seems even less like MO material, and this question is nearly as interesting to me. | |
| Sep 4, 2011 at 19:49 | comment | added | Federico Poloni | Incidentally, without a PhD $\neq$ amateur. In Italy, for instance, the PhD programme was instituted in 1980 only (with the exception of one special school). Therefore most Italian mathematicians at the end of their career do not possess one, even though they hold tenured positions. | |
| Sep 4, 2011 at 12:20 | history | edited | CommunityBot |
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user9072 Daniel Moskovich Andrés E. Caicedo Andrew Stacey Willie Wong |
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| Sep 4, 2011 at 12:20 | comment | added | Willie Wong | It feels somewhat strange to have this tagged as 'career'. | |
| Sep 4, 2011 at 11:42 | answer | added | Felipe Voloch | timeline score: 2 | |
| Sep 4, 2011 at 9:05 | comment | added | Alain Valette | The question is also quite close to mathoverflow.net/questions/20386/mathematics-as-a-hobby | |
| Sep 4, 2011 at 8:46 | answer | added | Georges Elencwajg | timeline score: 10 | |
| Sep 4, 2011 at 8:36 | answer | added | Nicola Ciccoli | timeline score: 6 | |
| Sep 4, 2011 at 6:14 | answer | added | David Lehavi | timeline score: 7 | |
| Sep 4, 2011 at 4:26 | answer | added | Murphy | timeline score: 3 | |
| Sep 4, 2011 at 3:58 | answer | added | Brendan McKay | timeline score: 7 | |
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| Sep 4, 2011 at 3:04 | answer | added | Selene Routley | timeline score: 5 | |
| Sep 4, 2011 at 2:48 | comment | added | Alexander Woo | As perhaps best exemplified by Russell (but also a number of less well known others), logic and certain schools of analytic philosophy are close enough that it is not always possible to tell them apart. Of course, there are other schools of analytic philosophy who see Russell's approach to philosophy and in particular the resemblance to mathematics as fundamentally wrong-headed. | |
| Sep 4, 2011 at 2:28 | comment | added | Logan M | Insofar as theoretical computer science is a part of mathematics, Chomsky should qualify. Despite being a linguist, his work helped shape modern theoretical computer science. | |
| Sep 4, 2011 at 2:14 | comment | added | Steve Huntsman | Freeman Dyson didn't bother with getting any PhD AFAIK. Of course this is a rather special case... | |
| Sep 4, 2011 at 1:49 | comment | added | user9072 | This question is quite similar mathoverflow.net/questions/44244/… Out of curiosity, given your motivation I am surprised you ask about 'outsiders' in math, rather than the reverse, what you seem to hope doing. | |
| Sep 4, 2011 at 1:33 | history | asked | AndrewLMarshall | CC BY-SA 3.0 |