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Post Reopened by teil, Yemon Choi, Mariano Suárez-Alvarez, François G. Dorais♦, Pete L. Clark
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Almost any mathematical concept has antecedents, ; it builds on, or is related to, previously known concepts. But are there concepts that owe little or nothing to previous work? The only example I know is Cantor's theory of sets. Nothing like his concrete manipulations of actual infinite objects had been done before. |
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Post Closed as "subjective and argumentative" by S. Carnahan♦, Noah Snyder, Harry Gindi, Kevin Lin, Scott Morrison♦
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