Timeline for Contacting an eminent mathematician
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| Aug 30, 2012 at 20:09 | comment | added | dward1996 | Sorry I forgot to add a final comment to this post. In the end I contacted both co-authors of the given journal article. One of the mathematicians as expected was unable to answer my question as he had not considered the material for over 25 years. However, he was kind enough to inform me of this and explain why his focus left this area of research. The other co-author gave a very nice response explaining where an expected mistake had occurred in the paper, and how this related to other parts of the paper. In doing so he gave invaluable insight into the motivation behind some of his work! | |
| Jun 15, 2012 at 8:51 | vote | accept | dward1996 | ||
| Jun 15, 2012 at 8:51 | comment | added | dward1996 | Thank you all for your helpful advice. I have just contacted said mathematician, taking the above advice into account. It has been really helpful to hear other people's views on the issues, and to gain a greater understanding of the etiquette of the academic world. Thanks! | |
| Jun 14, 2012 at 19:40 | comment | added | André Henriques | Concerning "somebody studied the paper and agreed with eveyrthing in it": I've once experienced the following opposite rather annoying situation "somebody studied the paper and DISagreed with a bunch of things in it". I then got into trouble for citing the paper as having done something... (the results turned up not to be wrong -- but the proofs were incomplete). | |
| Jun 14, 2012 at 19:05 | history | answered | Igor Pak | CC BY-SA 3.0 |