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What gives you that impression? When Newton alive, no one knew calculus. He had to invent it (along with Leibniz). Now we learn calculus in high school.
by vecter 10y ago
What gives you that impression? When Newton alive, no one knew calculus. He had to invent it (along with Leibniz).
Now we learn calculus in high school.
- qubex 10y agoEverything we take for granted today must have been by definition been invented previously, so any list of who-invented-what contains Great People Of The Past but doesn't contain the rank and file of those who worked in obscurity and achieved little, leaving the impression that in the past folks were smarter. It is a form of survivorship bias.