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Nearly all inventions were "the right time" and something was in the air. Do you have a counter example?
by AlbertCory 3y ago
Nearly all inventions were "the right time" and something was in the air. Do you have a counter example?
- esafak 3y agoSure. A lot of mathematics is out there; e.g., Shinichi Mochizuki's work on the abc conjecture is so far out other mathematicians can't evaluate it. Think of fields or problems only a handful of people are working on. Usually because it is viewed as fruitless. Then somebody cracks it and sometimes a use is found for it. The rest is labeled "useless research".
- AlbertCory 3y agoSo that's one example. The test would be: not only was there no precedent or suggestion for it, but it turned out to be epochal.