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Comment by camdenreslink

1 day ago

What is considered a big event? Some papers published or letters sent between academics have invented entire new categories of mathematics that didn’t exist. Is it is big as calculus or Euclid’s elements, or Godel’s incompleteness theorem? Or Hilbert’s program of formalism?

I’m skeptical!

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