New answers tagged biographical-details
12
votes
Accepted
Did Caroline Herschel know about the discovery of Neptune?
The answer is yes, she did know. Remarkably she was informed of the news mere days after the discovery in a letter from Alexander von Humboldt dated September 25 1846 which accompanied the Gold Medal ...
- 171
7
votes
Accepted
How did Emmy Noether become interested in abstract algebra?
Ernst Fischer was hired by Erlangen in 1911. He is known to us today for his work in analysis (Riesz-Fischer theorem), but he worked on algebraic topics at Erlangen (and his thesis was on determinants)...
- 5,197
1
vote
What scientists and mathematicians were afraid to publish their findings?
(Not sure if this is the kind of answer you're looking for, but since both questions are HNQs, I thought I'd write it.)
duncster94 appears to be doing research related to machine learning as applied ...
- 111
7
votes
What scientists and mathematicians were afraid to publish their findings?
Newton. Newton was afraid of controversies and of being involved in public disputes. As a result he was reluctant to publish his results, preferring to communicate them to a narrow circle of his ...
- 47.6k
2
votes
What scientists and mathematicians were afraid to publish their findings?
William Thurston did not publish many of his results. Instead he circulated them in unfinished form in some narrow circles. Some reasons for this he explained in his article
On proof and progress in ...
- 47.6k
14
votes
What scientists and mathematicians were afraid to publish their findings?
The moment I saw this Question , I connected it with $\sqrt{2}$ , which I think is the Earliest Example of hiding ( Mathematical ) Discoveries out of fear.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
- 356
8
votes
What scientists and mathematicians were afraid to publish their findings?
Schrödinger was afraid of publishing what is now known as the Klein-Gordon equation because it did not describe experimental data correctly. Instead, he published the nonrelativistic version, which ...
- 531
22
votes
What scientists and mathematicians were afraid to publish their findings?
Mikhael Gromov started his career in the Soviet Union. When he decided to try to leave (which was not an easy thing to do at the time, as it is now), he stopped publishing his work, fearful that if ...
- 5,062
Top 50 recent answers are included