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Alexandre Eremenko
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Abel and Galois were working independently and did not know each other. Their approaches were different but they solved (among other things) an old and famous problem.

There are many other examples: Abel and Jacobi (elliptic functions), Bolyai, Lobachevski and Gauss independently developed non-Euclidean geometry.