• essteeyou@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    I remember the day I realized that Africa and South America fit together when looking at a paper atlas. It felt like I had just discovered something incredible. I guess I had, but I wasn’t the first. :-)

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      8 months ago

      This happens a lot on mathematics, you figure out something that it’s looks incredible just to find out Euler already found it centuries ago.

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        8 months ago

        That’s why they name things after the second person to discover it - Euler was inevitably the first.