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Inventors and heroes

Inventors and heroes

Posted Mar 14, 2022 15:53 UTC (Mon) by ballombe (subscriber, #9523)
In reply to: Inventors and heroes by NYKevin
Parent article: Toward a better list iterator for the kernel

Being French, I will argue that Fermat invented calculus before them!
Really, ideas only exist when they are shared, and for that you need to be at least two.

While Hilbert gave his theorems numbers (90, 92 are the most well known)
Poincarré gave them the names of people whose work inspired him.


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