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Newton and Leibniz figured out calculus at about the same time. Only one guy published a paper outlining a method for basic integration in the 20th century. I
by maxerickson 6y ago
Newton and Leibniz figured out calculus at about the same time.
Only one guy published a paper outlining a method for basic integration in the 20th century.
It obviously got harder to discover calculus.
- Godel_unicode 6y agoThat's not how that works.
- maxerickson 6y agoHow what works? https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/9602/rediscovery-of-calculus-in-1994-what-should-have-happened-to-that-paper https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/9602/rediscover...
- Godel_unicode 6y agoIn order to prove that discovering calculus got harder, you would obviously need to show that the population of people who could discover it but didn't have prior knowledge of it was at least as large as when it was discovered. In addition, in order for there to be published (or even submitted) papers, you would need those people to not only not have any prior knowledge but to not encourter anyone with a highschool understanding of calculus in the review and publishing process. As that is equally obviously not the case, I repeat; that's not how that works.
- maxerickson 6y agoHas anybody published their discovery of calculus here in the 21st century yet though?
- hervature 6y agoHas the wheel gotten harder to invent since it hasn’t been invented in a million years? Your question makes no sense for the reasons pointed out by GP.
- maxerickson 6y agoIt's dumb enough that you might not take it seriously.
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- Godel_unicode 6y agoIt's certainly dumb.
- AnimalMuppet 6y agoSurprisingly, you don't seem to mean Lebesgue...
- maxerickson 6y agoI actually edited the word 'basic' in (before your comment, shortly after first submitting) because I recognize that I'm not a math historian.
- AnimalMuppet 6y agoWell... Lebesgue integration is a different basis from Reimann integration, so you might say it's a new basic method. If by "basic" you mean "high-school-calculus simple", it's probably not that. (Though the fundamental idea is simple enough to explain - see the Wikipedia article.)