2 Apr
2016
2 Apr
'16
4:03 p.m.
I've worked on at least two problems in the past five years that I couldn't find anything about previous work on, even when I used to have access to the MathSciNet database. I did eventually conclude that they hadn't been addressed before by asking several experts in the areas they fell in. (In these cases, they didn't straddle several areas.) —Dan
On Apr 2, 2016, at 2:46 PM, Keith F. Lynch <kfl@KeithLynch.net> wrote:
Meta-problem: Find a problem that doesn't generate anything searchable. Not sequences, not large integers, not unusual real numbers, not even unusual keywords. Bonus points if it's not obvious what, if any, existing branch of math it belongs to.