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Data-Mining Algorithm Reveals the Stormy Evolution of Mathematics Over 700 Years

5 points by aburan28 11y ago

GFK_of_xmaspast 11y ago
> The largest, with 100,000 descendants, originated in 1415 under the auspices of Sigismondo Polcastro, a medical doctor in Italy When I start tracing my mathematical lineage back, I find a couple bifurcations and eventually get to Ulrich Zasius (1501), Cristoforo Landino (late 1400s) Moses Perez (same), Elissaeus Jusaeus (late 1300s) and Manuel Bryennios (early 1300s): http://genealogy.math.ndsu.nodak.edu/id.php?id=184632 http://genealogy.math.ndsu.nodak.edu/id.php?id=184632 who has 128k descendants.
magoghm 11y ago
"The second transition occurred between 1970 and 1980, when computer science and statistics merged to form one community." Right now, in the early XXI Century, there is a big overlap between computer science and statistics (especially for AI/Machine Learning), but I don't feel like they have merged.