Timeline for How do community respond towards the posts that claims to solve an open problem?
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| Apr 13, 2017 at 12:21 | history | edited | CommunityBot |
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| Jun 8, 2016 at 20:50 | comment | added | Mr. Brooks | Speaking only for myself: with severe skepticism. | |
| Jun 7, 2016 at 2:44 | comment | added | Fred Daniel Kline | I gave +1 to the linked OP because he reminds me of me when I was a few days younger. | |
| Jun 4, 2016 at 8:33 | comment | added | Lucian | Great question ! Now, as much as I'd love to answer to it, I'm afraid I'm a little caught up at the moment, since I have to go over my thousand page proof for the abc conjecture just one more time, before publishing it on a reputable research site (like vixra, for instance) tomorrow. | |
| Jun 4, 2016 at 5:15 | vote | accept | Kushal Bhuyan | ||
| Jun 3, 2016 at 9:34 | history | edited | user249332 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jun 3, 2016 at 4:20 | answer | added | Szmagpie | timeline score: 17 | |
| Jun 2, 2016 at 5:24 | comment | added | Milo Brandt | The following meta question is similar, if not a duplicate: meta.math.stackexchange.com/questions/19652/… | |
| Jun 2, 2016 at 4:40 | comment | added | zyx | I consider it important that the site accept and answer claimed solutions of conjectures provided that postings meet some minimal formatting constraints: they are short enough to fit in one question, are mostly text, are readable enough to evaluate, do not cross-link between multiple questions. | |
| Jun 2, 2016 at 4:02 | comment | added | user14972 | @achille: This assumes that that is the medium by which the solver wishes to share their result, that solver is knowledgeable of how to get papers published, and that the solver in a position of being capable of doing so. | |
| Jun 2, 2016 at 3:40 | comment | added | achille hui | If someone actually solved a famous open problem, he/she won't post it here for proof verification ( for the fear someone will steal the main idea). Instead he/she will submit a paper to reputable journal or at the least a preprint to place like arXiv which can be used as an evidence of precedence | |
| Jun 2, 2016 at 3:25 | comment | added | Gerry Myerson | I think the response of the community is to shrug its collective shoulders and sigh, "Ah, another one who thinks he can solve a notorious mathematical problem with a little high-school algebra," and then to move on to something more likely to be rewarding. | |
| Jun 2, 2016 at 2:19 | comment | added | pjs36 | From what I've seen: It has been one of the mildest reactions to a "proof" of an extremely well known open problem: a single comment (mine), and no downvotes or votes to close (although I expect that to change with your meta post). Often they're hopelessly incomprehensible (as you say, "I have not understand any bit of it") and are received poorly. Sometimes these posts have a certain je ne sais quoi (perhaps brevity and the "clearly I must have made a mistake; where?" attitude) that results in modest upvoting, but that's not common. | |
| Jun 2, 2016 at 1:41 | history | asked | Kushal Bhuyan | CC BY-SA 3.0 |