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That's not how math community generally works. Everyone knows what the important idea of a proof is. Publishing the work that grates a new field of mathematics
by lupire 2y ago
That's not how math community generally works.
Everyone knows what the important idea of a proof is. Publishing the work that grates a new field of mathematics that leads to a proof is not worse than toiling away privately (for longer!).
Gregory Perelman, the only Millennium Prize winner, declined the prize because he refused to accept credit for Richard S Hamilton's foundational work.