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Plenty of counterexamples to the claim https://mathoverflow.net/questions/25630/major-mathematical-advances-past-age-fifty https://mathoverflow.net/questions/2
by salty_biscuits 4y ago
Plenty of counterexamples to the claim
https://mathoverflow.net/questions/25630/major-mathematical-advances-past-age-fifty https://mathoverflow.net/questions/25630/major-mathematical-...
- gavagai691 4y agoMore counterexamples here too: https://old.reddit.com/r/math/comments/xw8i9w/oldest_person_to_publish_in_annals_top_5_journal/ https://old.reddit.com/r/math/comments/xw8i9w/oldest_person_....
- markus_zhang 4y agoJust curious how many examples that show FIRST major discovery after say 40? I think I spotted a few.
- astrange 4y agoThis was an interesting one - a proof by a 67 year old retiree that nobody in the field knew about for 2-3 years after because they didn't read their email. https://www.quantamagazine.org/20170328-statistician-proves-gaussian-correlation-inequality/ https://www.quantamagazine.org/20170328-statistician-proves-...
- warbler73 4y agoMarjorie Rice. Housewife. https://www.quantamagazine.org/marjorie-rices-secret-pentagons-20170711/ https://www.quantamagazine.org/marjorie-rices-secret-pentago... Her discoveries first mentioned in a 1988 magazine when she was 65.
- wikfwikf 4y agoThe discovery of these pentomino tilings is an interesting achievement and evidence of an exceptional mind, but it's very far from a major advance in mathematics.