Timeline for What are some examples of narrowly missed discoveries in the history of mathematics?
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| Jun 20, 2010 at 17:33 | comment | added | Allen Hatcher | A decade after Schubert, Waldhausen also came close to the JSJ decomposition, in his work on graph manifolds for example. It almost seems as if Seifert back in the 1930s could have discovered the JSJ decomposition. | |
| Jun 20, 2010 at 6:45 | history | edited | Ryan Budney | CC BY-SA 2.5 |
cut out "at least"
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| Jun 20, 2010 at 6:23 | history | answered | Ryan Budney | CC BY-SA 2.5 |