• niktemadur@lemmy.world
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        1 year ago

        I thought it was Algernon Bracamontes of Aragon.

        Also yes, it was Dimitri Maglev who invented maglev train technology.

      • hansl@lemmy.world
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        It was a rainy Saturday and the local farmers were in and about when he told me about those darned letters.

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      Pythagoras died a ‘thirdgin’ because of this. /s

      I.e. you don’t even need algebra to use letters.

      • EatYouWell@lemmy.world
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        The funny part is that his theorem had already been discovered by an ancient civilization. I want to say the sumarians, but honestly that’s the only one I’m familiar with, so I could be wrong.

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          I would not be surprised if someone thought of that >1000 years before him.

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      11 months ago

      You can’t even blame Newton for calculus, he refused to publish his papers about it. Leibniz is the guy you’re looking for.

      But everyone remembers Newton cause he’s the guy who got bonked on the head with an apple and invented gravity or somthin.