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It's pretty common for things like that to happen. There are many other cases. Calculus from Newton and Leipzig being another example. There is even a wikipedia
by rowanG077 4y ago
It's pretty common for things like that to happen. There are many other cases. Calculus from Newton and Leipzig being another example. There is even a wikipedia page delving into the concept: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiple_discovery https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiple_discovery
Basic hypothesis is that once enough precondition for an invention are there then the leap can be made.
- dane-pgp 4y agoI stared for a long time at your third sentence before I remembered that Leibniz is the correct name of the German mathematician you are referring to, and Leipzig is a German city (where, coincidentally, he was born). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gottfried_Wilhelm_Leibniz https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gottfried_Wilhelm_Leibniz https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leipzig https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leipzig
- rowanG077 4y agoHaha Autocorrect I think. I indeed meant to write Leibniz. Pretty embarrassing considering my high school was named after him.