Principal Result relates a mathematician to the theorem or mathematical object for which that person is chiefly remembered, such as Fermat and his last theorem or Mandelbrot and the Mandelbrot set, and runs back from each theorem or object to the mathematicians whose principal result it is. It is a browse edge for a reader who knows a result and wants the person, or the reverse. It is recorded only where a standard biography or history of mathematics names the result as the person defining contribution.
Principal Result relates a mathematician to the theorem or mathematical object for which that person is chiefly remembered, such as Fermat and his last theorem or Mandelbrot and the Mandelbrot set, and runs back from each theorem or object to the mathematicians whose principal result it is. It is a browse edge for a reader who knows a result and wants the person, or the reverse. It is recorded only where a standard biography or history of mathematics names the result as the person defining contribution.
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