Timeline for When is a math diploma thesis seriously publishable?
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| Aug 1, 2023 at 23:31 | vote | accept | MackeyTopology | ||
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| Aug 1, 2023 at 23:07 | comment | added | paul garrett | @JochenGlueck, yes, indeed, "questions which nobody has (seriously) tried before"... Still, although that criterion is good in a number of ways, it may also reflect the shallowness of the question. Hard to know... | |
| Aug 1, 2023 at 22:12 | comment | added | Jochen Glueck | Don't know about the downvote either (I upvoted). One thing that might be somewhat open to discussion, though, is the line "succeeding at things that much more senior people had failed to do", I guess. I think quite a significant fraction of the mathematical results that are published do not really prove something that others tried to prove before and failed - rather, the authors simply consider questions which nobody has (seriously) tried before, yet. This seems to be one way how, sometimes, an undergraduate student can get a result from their thesis published. | |
| Aug 1, 2023 at 21:52 | comment | added | paul garrett | Ah, well, the downvote is either a random cranky one, or blaming the weather reporter for the weather... Yes, as has been discussed here before, there is an irrational inflation of apparent expectations... (which cannot literally be met, no). | |
| Aug 1, 2023 at 17:55 | history | answered | paul garrett | CC BY-SA 4.0 |