Comment on Five disciplines discovered the same math independentlyComments−arjie7moIt reminds me of “Tai’s method” of integration - an approximation discovered in 1994.https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/9602/rediscover...I think I found it in that other world that is the past on Slashdot - which was a Hacker News from another era https://m.slashdot.org/story/144664−energyscholarOP7moI agree that's a good parallel. I had not seen it before. Thanks for the link.−lazyasciiart7moI don’t think that was supposed to be independent discovery - it was something about needing a published source for the method when saying they’d used it in other papers.−kjshsh1237moYou shouldn't need a source for approximating an area with simpler shapes.−direwolf207moOne could call it energyscholar's parallel
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It reminds me of “Tai’s method” of integration - an approximation discovered in 1994.
https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/9602/rediscover...
I think I found it in that other world that is the past on Slashdot - which was a Hacker News from another era https://m.slashdot.org/story/144664
I agree that's a good parallel. I had not seen it before. Thanks for the link.
I don’t think that was supposed to be independent discovery - it was something about needing a published source for the method when saying they’d used it in other papers.
You shouldn't need a source for approximating an area with simpler shapes.
One could call it energyscholar's parallel