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his deliberate withholding of results he already knew the answer to so that other people could prove them instead That's extraordinary! I never heard of such a
by gruseom 16y ago
his deliberate withholding of results he already knew the answer to so that other people could prove them instead
That's extraordinary! I never heard of such a thing. Are other cases known?
- gjm11 16y agoGauss seems to have proved lots of (surely publishable) things that he didn't publish. I don't know what his reasons were.
- ajb 16y agoAccording to Erdos, Gauss was very discouraging to his students, because when they came and told him that they'd proven something, he would tell them he'd proven it years before. from "The man who loved only numbers.' by Paul Hoffman.