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> there are numerous examples of productive older mathematicians

Curious about the extreme cases. Did any centenarians ever managed to come with an outstanding original math result? If it didn't happen before, I hope to see it happening in the next decades, given current demographic trends.

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I was told that a book published in honor of Oscar Zariski's 80th birthday included a paper by Oscar Zariski, either proving or at least making progress on a longstanding conjecture by Oscar Zariski.

I was in the relevant department at the time (Harvard math), but I wasn't much of an algebraic geometer, so I took that at face value without probing for details.

Erdős? I’m sure the Ritalin helped.

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