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Too bad it ends at 2000, though I understand that 17 years ago may still be too soon to know what should count as history. Does anybody have a suggestion of wha
by Herodotus38 9y ago
Too bad it ends at 2000, though I understand that 17 years ago may still be too soon to know what should count as history. Does anybody have a suggestion of what they think will eventually be included in such a timeline covering the last 20 years if it were made in 2100?
- ihm 9y agoI'm surprised Gromov and Thurston's contributions to geometry in the 70s-00s aren't emphasized more. Some things I think should be on there from my admittedly limited point of view: - 1982/87: Yao and then later Goldreich-Micali-Wigderson prove the "fundamental theorem of cryptography", which essentially states that any computational functionality can be achieved "efficiently" and securely. I.e., given k parties with one input each and any function F of k inputs and k outputs, the parties can communicate so that each learns their output of the function on all the inputs, and nothing else. - 2003: Perelman's proof of the geometrization conjecture.
- kercker 9y ago- 2013: Yitang Zhang's work on the gap between prime numbers.
- mrkgnao 9y agoI made a top-level parent comment about a result from March 2017. Otherwise, things that either will become part of history, or suggest directions for work that will: * Green-Tao theorem, and lots of other work involving Terry Tao * Yitang Zhang's work on prime gaps, and subsequent improvements * Bhargava and collaborators' work on elliptic curves * The introduction of algebraic topology methods into algebraic geometry (aka "simplicial"/"derived" stuff, see Jacob Lurie) * Homotopy type theory * Mochizuki/ABC stuff * Peter Scholze's work in arithmetic geometry