• chunes@lemmy.world
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    Yes, that’s the way mathematics works. Progress happens incrementally from different contributors.

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      However the mathematicians don’t usually go searching through colleagues private documents for sparks of inspiration, work through the night then claim the success as their own, denying contributions of others.