* * * (O que acontece quando se aplica a cienciometria a si mesma?)
Falamos de pesquisa de impacto. Cito: https://rjlipton.wordpress.com/2012/09/29/why-we-lose-sleep-some-nights/ [...] David Hilbert once said: "One can measure the importance of a scientific work by the number of earlier publications rendered superfluous by it." Our worry looking ahead is based exactly on this quotation. Some conjectures are what we will call “normal” and others are “abnormal.” A normal conjecture is one whose truth does not wipe out previous developments. For example, in our opinion Andrew Wiles’ two papers proving Fermat’s Last Theorem, one joint with Richard Taylor, did not diminish most previous work—indeed they built on it. A grand conjecture like the Langlands Program would validate our understanding of algebra and lash previous work together into a new foundation. But abnormal results do more than overshadow past work. * * * Segundo as definições dadas, a a conjectura "P≠NP" é "normal", e a conjectura "P=NP" é "anormal". Mais anormal ainda: "P=PSPACE". Assistiremos finalmente em 2014 a demonstração de alguma destas conjecturas? (Ou vai ser só Copa do Mundo mesmo?) O assunto é discutido no link citado acima. * * * JM -- http://sequiturquodlibet.googlepages.com/ _______________________________________________ Logica-l mailing list [email protected] http://www.dimap.ufrn.br/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/logica-l
