It also reminds me of the Calculus itself. It's often considered one of the best outcomes of Newton and Liebniz discovering the Calculus nearly simultaneously a

It also reminds me of the Calculus itself. It's often considered one of the best outcomes of Newton and Liebniz discovering the Calculus nearly simultaneously and with little to no coordination until after the fact is that as people discussed the results and compared the two efforts what we ultimately ended up with was a lot of Newton's insights and pedagogy, but based more upon Liebniz's notation. That has long stuck with me that Liebniz developed a better, more generally useful notation as a tool of thought for following mathematicians, but Newton still developed a lot more lasting insights into the Calculus despite a generally more "inferior" notation (though certainly a notation presumably specifically more useful to Newton's own thought processes).