love it when the nytimes journalist just runs with the nonsense about 20th century history spouted by the mathematicians he interviewshttps://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/18/science/abel-prize-mathematics.html …
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(which is what I said in the next tweet: https://twitter.com/MBarany/status/1240762331493171200 … )
The article doesn't claim Margulis and Furstenberg discovered probability or ergodic theory (which, yes, goes back centuries). I wasn't writing a complete history of dynamical systems. But they used those ideas in new and different ways.
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For sure they used it in new ways, but if you read what you wrote (from Labourie inter alia) about the history of these developments, the claims in the article are incorrect, as several historians of 20c math could have told you
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Nobody expects you to write a complete history. I think it's reasonable to expect you to want to be correct about the parts of the history you do use.
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