Timeline for Are questions related to mathematicians appropriate for MO?
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| Nov 23, 2013 at 8:39 | comment | added | Qiaochu Yuan | It's worth being aware that you'll find many highly upvoted questions of approximately this level of softness, but if you scrutinize them more closely you'll notice that they generally weren't asked recently. Standards were different in the earlier days. | |
| Nov 21, 2013 at 9:18 | vote | accept | Manfred Weis | ||
| Nov 20, 2013 at 23:12 | answer | added | Stefan KohlMod | timeline score: 6 | |
| Nov 20, 2013 at 22:18 | comment | added | Gerry Myerson | mathoverflow.net/questions/45185/… got 49 upvotes, 4 downvotes. mathoverflow.net/questions/28947/… 38 up, 1 down. mathoverflow.net/questions/102597/… 16 up, 1 down. mathoverflow.net/questions/74707/… 66 up, 4 down. There have been questions about mathematicians who did their best work after 40, mathematicians who came to math from other fields, but I didn't find them. | |
| Nov 20, 2013 at 21:06 | answer | added | user9072 | timeline score: 11 | |
| Nov 20, 2013 at 20:56 | answer | added | Andy Putman | timeline score: 4 | |
| Nov 20, 2013 at 19:56 | comment | added | Gerhard Paseman | Much as mathematical -history, -education, -sociology, -gossip make an appearance, such questions lie outside the main thrust, and are accepted more at the caprice of the community rather than by any rule or justification. If you ask on meta whether a specific question is appropriate, you might get more appropriate feedback. As your question presently stand, the safe answer is "usually not". Gerhard "Always Practice Safe Question Answering" Paseman, 2013.11.20 | |
| Nov 20, 2013 at 19:07 | history | asked | Manfred Weis | CC BY-SA 3.0 |