One of my favorite Claude Shannon facts is that he (and co-authors Elias and Feinstein) independently discovered Ford-Fulkerson/maxflow-mincut [1] shortly after

One of my favorite Claude Shannon facts is that he (and co-authors Elias and Feinstein) independently discovered Ford-Fulkerson/maxflow-mincut [1] shortly after Ford and Fulkerson. [1] https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/1056816 https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/1056816