Some Comments on Multiple Discovery in Mathematics
History and Overview
2014-12-12 v1
Abstract
Among perhaps many things common to Kuratowski's Theorem in graph theory, Reidemeister's Theorem in topology, and Cook's Theorem in theoretical computer science is this: all belong to the phenomenon of simultaneous discovery in mathematics. We are interested to know whether this phenomenon, and its close cousin repeated discovery, give rise to meaningful questions regarding causes, trends, categories, etc. With this in view we unearth many more examples, find some tenuous connections and draw some tentative conclusions.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1412.3718,
title = {Some Comments on Multiple Discovery in Mathematics},
author = {Robin Whitty},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1412.3718},
year = {2014}
}