Re:Paul Erdős (2000)
by behnamoh on Friday March 26, 2021 @09:14PM
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I think it's not just about the sheer amount of papers one writes, but also the impact they have on the literature. And for Euler, he was lucky to live in an era without the problems of lengthy review processes as we see today.
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He was writing one paper a week even after he became blind!
"So prolific was he that the journal of the St. Petersburg Academy was still publishing the backlog of his papers a full 48 years after his death." – Euler: The Master Of Us All
p.s. Last year I read his Introductio in analysin infinitorum (1748), "one of the most influential mathematics books of all time", which made the function concept basic in mathematics. Polynomials, trig functions, exponential functions, the logarithm function, etc etc - doing amazing things with infinite series. It was hard to believe it wasn't a thoroughly modernised text, everything looks so modern, but it's just that he introduced a lot of our notation. And he explains things so helpfully and modestly. A joy to read, highly recommended.
Re:Paul Erdős (2000)
by disgruntled101 on Friday March 26, 2021 @09:32PM
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that's really debatable. Accomplish a lot in the general sense most likely, but if you want to be a world class mathematician meth wont be enough, it will just boost your already existing capabilities
Re:Paul Erdős (2000)
by misterkrabs on Saturday March 27, 2021 @01:41AM
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Meth is different from amphetamine (unless you were just being hyperbolic - in which case, I'm sorry for being pedantic lol).