Timeline for Getting Experts Opinions on Mathematical Results
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| Jul 27, 2013 at 21:31 | comment | added | user9072 | @StefanKohl: thank you for the information! I briefly looked through the questions but silehow I missed that one. | |
| Jul 27, 2013 at 21:12 | comment | added | Stefan Kohl Mod | @quid Apparently Manfred Weis has already asked that question in March: mathoverflow.net/questions/124089/… . It is still open, though -- I think understandably -- it has not yielded much feedback. | |
| Jul 27, 2013 at 18:12 | comment | added | user9072 | @ManfredWeis I do not want to dismis this out of hand, but to be honest the way you go about describing this does not raise my confindence this will work well. (Sure, this is only a meta-discussion and not the actual math question but still.) But of course feel free to try the question, the worst thing that can happen is it gets closed. | |
| Jul 27, 2013 at 18:09 | comment | added | user9072 | @StefanKohl: yes, it always depends what one has in mind precisely (also I used qualifying words like 'in general' and 'typically'). Sometimes such things can work, but most of the time they don't. | |
| Jul 27, 2013 at 16:23 | comment | added | Stefan Kohl Mod | Unfortunately, most questions on MO of the type of which quid says it is to be avoided are really of so poor quality that one cannot do much else than closing and deleting them. Nevertheless I am not convinced that questions asking for what some work might be relevant for, or whether people think for the one or the other reason that it might be more or less interesting should be banned in general. -- Although partly opinion-based, questions of this type are important in mathematics as well! | |
| Jul 27, 2013 at 14:37 | comment | added | Manfred Weis | to give a concrete example of what I have in mind: I found a way to formulate integer factorization as a Linear Program and think that that could be of general interest because normally (or exclusively) integer factorization is done with number theoretic methods. What I in that case would like, is something like "that has been tried, but is not useful for practical problems" or "that's great, can you supply more details?" or "you should contact Mrs./Mr. X" | |
| Jul 27, 2013 at 13:33 | history | answered | user9072 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |