Talk:Andreas Floer

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I would like to disambiguate monopole in this article, but can't tell whether the link should be to magnetic monopole or some yet uncreated topology monopole page. I'm leaving the link to the disambiguation page for someone more knowledgeable to fix. Wnissen 02:25, 30 July 2005 (UTC)

Posthumous publications
I don't understand the significance or relevance of this section. Naturally, they are different from publications Andreas Floer published when he was alive, but I don't feel that one should bring attention to a math paper by virtue of the author being deceased when it was published. If it is mathematically significant, we can put it under "selected publications", otherwise I see no reason. --C S 02:19, September 5, 2005 (UTC)

What might be best is just to write more about Hofer in the biography section and perhaps reference a paper that could be considered their best work together. --C S 02:19, September 5, 2005 (UTC)

I completely agree (my email to you; maybe Hofer will say something about this posthumous collaboration) --Erkabo 12:03, 5 September 2005 (UTC)

leave this term there, I think it's helpful. In fact, there is really some idea in those papers which are only crafts, not published--refer to the Floer Memorial Volume. --wandonye 22:54, 26 September 2005

Dear - regrettably userpageless - wandonye: If this is as you say, well then, ok. But please tell us what exactly "those papers" are and from where you know this. (You mean "drafts", presumably - though "crafts" has something about it.) We would be really grateful for an explanation. If you don't like to put it on the talk, please email: rolf.kaiser"at"utp.de. Thank you! --Erkabo 07:30, 29 September 2005 (UTC)

By "those papers", I meant "Instanton homology and Dehn surgery". Maybe referring this paper as "craft" is not exact, but at least it is not of the final form. So it's nessecery to distinguish it out, otherwise readers would be mislead by the obscurity there maight be. You can find the paper in the Floer Memorial Volume as I refered.--wandonye 14:00, 7 Oct. 2005

Dear wandonye, thank you very much for your consideration. Erkabo 07:07, 17 October 2005 (UTC)

More Donaldson!?
Hi C S, would you find it advisable to put in this statement by Donaldson:

“One of Floer’s most decisive achievements was his solution of the “Arnold conjecture” on fixed points of a symplectomorphism.”

It is from his text that I put into “Further reading” - hope you will agree. A footnote for the citation would read:

Simon Donaldson, On the work of Andreas Floer, Jahresber. Deutsch. Math.-Verein. 95 (3) (1993), p. 107

Maybe you could find an elegant way of joining this citation with instanton homology and the rest of the middle section of the article?

Cheers, Rolf Erkabo 17:50, 24 February 2006 (UTC)


 * Hi Rolf, I don't think it's necessary to put it in as a quote, so I rephrased it and merged it into the Life section. It's also mentioned in the references already given, but I think the Donaldson article is indeed good for further reading, so good work on finding the reference.  Anyway, it's clear the Life section requires more work at summing up Andreas' contributions in a clearer way.  Perhaps you could ask a contributor to the Floer homology page, e.g. David Farris, to add a brief historical outline of the sequence of his contributions and how it impacted the then current state of knowledge.  --C S (Talk) 04:06, 27 February 2006 (UTC)

Hi C S, very good! As David Farris (hopefully) will have this page on his watchlist, why not ask him together, here and now? --- So, David, please, could you do that, would you like to do that? Or maybe someone else or all together? Rolf of Erkabo 08:33, 27 February 2006 (UTC)

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