Timeline for Besides proving new theorems, how can a person contribute to mathematics?
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| Oct 7, 2016 at 20:20 | review | Close votes | |||
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| Jan 7, 2015 at 9:28 | answer | added | R K Sinha | timeline score: 2 | |
| Jan 7, 2015 at 3:00 | review | Close votes | |||
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| Jan 5, 2015 at 6:16 | comment | added | ike | Funding the smart guys. | |
| Jan 4, 2015 at 19:57 | comment | added | Asaf Karagila♦ | @darij: Given an open problem $P$ (read: we don't know how to prove $P$), we can reformulate it as the theorem "$P$ is not provable". You can either find a surprising proof for this fact (a la CH, etc.) or you can disprove it by proving $P$. :-) | |
| Jan 4, 2015 at 5:06 | answer | added | Jair Taylor | timeline score: 13 | |
| Jan 3, 2015 at 21:00 | answer | added | Federico Poloni | timeline score: 13 | |
| Jan 3, 2015 at 19:35 | answer | added | Horst Grünbusch | timeline score: 5 | |
| Jan 3, 2015 at 9:42 | comment | added | JRN | Answering questions on StackExchange. | |
| Jan 2, 2015 at 18:20 | comment | added | J W | See also Tao's What is Good Mathematics?. | |
| Jan 2, 2015 at 16:55 | comment | added | user65203 | By finding applications :) | |
| Jan 2, 2015 at 16:47 | history | edited | David Zhang | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jan 2, 2015 at 16:45 | answer | added | DanielV | timeline score: 23 | |
| Jan 2, 2015 at 15:33 | comment | added | darij grinberg | Don't forget disproving old theorems. :P | |
| Jan 2, 2015 at 15:06 | answer | added | Steven Gubkin | timeline score: 17 | |
| Jan 2, 2015 at 12:53 | review | Close votes | |||
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| Jan 2, 2015 at 12:47 | comment | added | Wojowu | Apart from proving new theorems, one can also prove already well-known results using some novel techniques, giving new insights (e.g. use of ergodic theory to prove results like Szemeredi's theorem). | |
| Jan 2, 2015 at 12:39 | answer | added | Yes | timeline score: 16 | |
| Jan 2, 2015 at 12:36 | comment | added | Felipe Gavilan | It is not all about proofs; making conjectures is another way of contributing to mathematics, because it can lead attention of the mathematical community towards an unexplored challenge. | |
| Jan 2, 2015 at 12:27 | answer | added | user139000 | timeline score: 42 | |
| Jan 2, 2015 at 11:09 | answer | added | Qiaochu Yuan | timeline score: 45 | |
| Jan 2, 2015 at 11:02 | comment | added | Dan Rust | This should probably be community wiki. | |
| Jan 2, 2015 at 11:02 | comment | added | Henno Brandsma | Teaching is also important. | |
| Jan 2, 2015 at 11:01 | history | asked | David Zhang | CC BY-SA 3.0 |