2025-03-03

Publish or Perish in style.

Joseph Liouville, a famous French mathematician, whom multiple important theorems are named after, was also the founder and the editor of Journal de Mathématiques Pures et Appliquées, universally known as Liouville's journal (still in print, still very prestigious, two centuries later!).

Here is the list of the articles Liouville published in his own journal in 1861:

And then some more:

... and more ...

...

Look somewhat... similar don't they? The truth is, Liouville proved a certain general result about quadratic forms, but chose to keep it secret. Instead, he published almost two hundred papers with special cases, easily obtainable from his general theorem, but rather mysterious otherwise.

This was the bulk of his scientific output in the early 1860s.

References

[0] Lützen, JesperJoseph Liouville, 1809-1882: Master of Pure and Applied Mathematics. Springer New York, 1990.

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