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What happened to mathematicians after solving their "career problem"?
Many mathematicians have dedicated a good part of their career towards solving a specific problem, whether directly or indirectly. Some examples on top of my head:
Richard Hamilton and the Poincare conjecture
Andrew Wiles and Fermat's last theorem
Thomas Hales and the Kepler conjecture (proof and formal verification)
And perhaps very recently:
Diego Cordoba and the Navier-Stokes equations
How did the careers and research-focus of these mathematicians shift after their career-problem was solved? Did anything particularly interesting happen?
u/sergiogfs — 12 days ago