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It's also funny that while the title uses the baity word "discover", the very first paragraph merely claims the mathematicians "described" the shapes. I know t
by crazygringo 2y ago
It's also funny that while the title uses the baity word "discover", the very first paragraph merely claims the mathematicians "described" the shapes.
I know that in newspapers and magazines, editors write headlines rather than authors to get clicks, regardless of accuracy. I would have thought Nature would try to be better though...
- excalibur 2y agoReminds me of those stupid Lipozene ads circa 2012: "Researchers have now discovered a capsule that helps reduce this 'body fat', and control your weight."
- chairmansteve 2y agoThe Nature empire is just another click bait factory.
- dotancohen 2y agoHonestly, the observation seems novel enough to me that the term discovery is appropriate. We say that Darwin discovered evolution and Newton discovered gravity. Both these phenomenon were previously observed but it took a genius to consider what they were in essence. Same with this work - look at the photographs of the mollusk, river, and onion. I would have never connected those dots.
- atworkc 2y agoMaybe a tad philosophical/pedantic but many mathematicians follow the "Mathematical realism" approach and would say that any new mathematics be it simply describing existing shapes is actually a form of discovery in the world of mathematics