The decline of unfettered research (1995)

Re:The decline of unfettered research (1995) by jamesmishra on Monday November 08, 2021 @01:51PM (#29152756)

I was lucky to take a grad-level math course in error correcting codes from Dr. Andrew Odlyzko, the author of the essay.

I read a lot of his papers ( http://www.dtc.umn.edu/~odlyzko/ ) in the hopes that I would learn something to improve my exam scores, but he has a knack for asking questions so fundamental that they have almost never even been properly formulated before.

If you have some time, I recommend reading a few of his papers. He completely changed my view of mathematics.

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Re:The decline of unfettered research (1995) by akoluthic on Monday November 08, 2021 @02:17PM (#29153046)

Wow, what a diverse body of work. Could you give an example of a paper that you feel fits your description of having "almost never even been properly formulated before"?

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Re:The decline of unfettered research (1995) by paganel on Monday November 08, 2021 @06:48PM (#29155873)

> what a diverse body of work

Indeed, for example this page [1] is absolutely fantastic, it hits a lot of right buttons in my case (history of railways, history of finance/economics, a combination between history of railways and the history of finance, which is even more interesting).

[1] http://www.dtc.umn.edu/~odlyzko/doc/bubbles.html

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Re:The decline of unfettered research (1995) by pottertheotter on Monday November 08, 2021 @09:40PM (#29157079)

I was also in need of some 1990's WWW nostalgia tonight, which this website provided.

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Re:The decline of unfettered research (1995) by miobrien on Monday November 08, 2021 @07:47PM (#29156325)

I remember coming across his essay on Newton. Very interesting.

https://physicstoday.scitation.org/doi/pdf/10.1063/PT.3.4521

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