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Jean-Baptiste Fourier | Joseph Lagrange | Leonhard Euler 1726 | Johann Bernoulli 1694 |
by anm89 4y ago
Jean-Baptiste Fourier
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Joseph Lagrange
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Leonhard Euler 1726
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Johann Bernoulli 1694
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Gottfried Leibniz 1666
I was never aware of this connection. Is there some reasons or story behind how all of these geniuses clustered together?
- bgriirtuh 4y agoIt's hard to succeed in academia if you aren't in a lineage. See Castelvecchi, D. "Majority of mathematicians hail from just 24 scientific ‘families’". Nature 537, 20–21 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1038/nature.2016.20491 https://doi.org/10.1038/nature.2016.20491 https://www.nature.com/articles/nature.2016.20491 https://www.nature.com/articles/nature.2016.20491
- alfiedotwtf 4y agoSame goes with classical piano, and Kung Fu.