Yeah, random internet forum users emailing eminent mathematician en masse would be strange enough to be non-productive. I for one wasn’t thinking anyone would to, I don’t think it was what OP suggested. To anyone contemplating sending one, the task is best delegated to someone who not only can write coherent research proposals that sound relevant to the person approached, but can write the best one.
Mathematicians receive occasional crank emails about solutions to P ?= NP, so anyone doing the reaching needs to be reputable to get past their crank filters.
Yeah, random internet forum users emailing eminent mathematician en masse would be strange enough to be non-productive. I for one wasn’t thinking anyone would to, I don’t think it was what OP suggested. To anyone contemplating sending one, the task is best delegated to someone who not only can write coherent research proposals that sound relevant to the person approached, but can write the best one.
Mathematicians receive occasional crank emails about solutions to P ?= NP, so anyone doing the reaching needs to be reputable to get past their crank filters.