Re:Mathematicians Measure Infinities, Find They’re Equal
by throwawayjava on Wednesday September 13, 2017 @05:10PM
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The work was first posted to arxiv in 2012. It can take a while until a result is understood by enough experts to confirm its correctness. Imagine if journalists wrote an article claiming P=NP is closed every time someone posted their attempt to arxiv.
Also, this work very recently won a prestigious award.
Also, result published ---> result accepted ---> journalist writes high-quality piece explaining result to lay people can take years.
> the lack of an actual citation was very disturbing
The first linked text in the article is a link to the arxiv paper.
Re:Mathematicians Measure Infinities, Find They’re Equal
by gus_massa on Wednesday September 13, 2017 @05:26PM
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In Math usually the peer review time is very long. Perhaps one or one and half year (unless you are unlucky and when you contact the editor after a year he realizes that one of the referees "crashed" and must be "reseted").
In Physics people gets mad if the referees+editor take more than two months.
Each branch of science has its own typical time.
Re:Mathematicians Measure Infinities, Find They’re Equal
by burkaman on Thursday September 14, 2017 @10:18AM
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The article links to their journal publication from last year: http://www.ams.org/journals/jams/2016-29-01/S0894-0347-2015-...
Furthermore, the lack of an actual citation was very disturbing, since if anybody did want to read the actual paper, they had to google for terms that would lead to basically incomprehensible search results.