Timeline for What areas/aspects of mathematics are underrepresented on MO?
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| Sep 10, 2015 at 23:39 | comment | added | François G. Dorais Mod | For the sake of saving the trip to a rather interesting footnote, the conclusion of the reference proposed by @SteveHuntsman is that the term comes from the Ancient Greek έργο (work) and ὁδός (path, road, way). | |
| Sep 9, 2015 at 6:46 | comment | added | Piyush Grover | I would like to add that the cousins of Ergodic theory, i.e. various flavors of dynamical systems are also quite under represented here. | |
| Sep 8, 2015 at 20:22 | comment | added | Steve Huntsman | @GilKalai: see note 8 of plato.stanford.edu/entries/statphys-Boltzmann/notes.html | |
| Sep 8, 2015 at 16:27 | comment | added | Gil Kalai | One question I am curious about is what is the origin of the name "ergodic" what does it mean and what is its history. | |
| Sep 8, 2015 at 1:23 | comment | added | Steve Huntsman | The fact that a nonspecialist (yours truly) formed the "ergodic-theory" tag many months after MO started up is also pretty solid evidence that the field was underrepresented from the beginning. But I am very glad that it had some knowledgeable representatives who could answer my elementary questions! | |
| Sep 7, 2015 at 20:35 | history | edited | Ian Morris | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Sep 7, 2015 at 17:32 | history | answered | Ian Morris | CC BY-SA 3.0 |