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>>>> (Actually, the history of science and mathematics seems to involve
>>>> quite a lot of things being discovered, forgotten and then
>>>> rediscovered, often after a seriously large length of time.)
>>>
>>> That happens a lot when fanatics burn down libraries. Hasn't really
>>> happened much since the invention of the printing press.
>>
>> Which, AFAIK, is "fairly recent".
>
> Yep. The first "modern" press was the mid-1400's. There were some in
> China that didn't work out all that well due to the lack of an
> alphabet.
Hahaha! Isn't China that country that *has* an alphabet, but it's 22,000
characters or something absurd?
>> seemingly nothing inbetween.
>
> Quite possibly due to either libraries burning down, or due to math not
> being all that useful without science, once the basics you need for
> architecture census and such are figured out.
Check out the graph:
http://tinyurl.com/ydncoro
Notice the huge gap in the middle, and the much smaller gap between then
and now? I'm sure other mathematicians *existed*, they just weren't
especially famous... ;-)
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