@Daft_ish@lemmy.world to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world • edit-23 months agoHow likely do you think it is that there might have been a person in a the last 2000 years who solved one of life's great mysteries but never reported/recorded it?message-square24fedilinkarrow-up1107arrow-down13
arrow-up1104arrow-down1message-squareHow likely do you think it is that there might have been a person in a the last 2000 years who solved one of life's great mysteries but never reported/recorded it?@Daft_ish@lemmy.world to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world • edit-23 months agomessage-square24fedilink
minus-squareBuglefingerslinkfedilink11•3 months agoSome of these things probably were recorded, then promptly lost or provided no context. Ramanujan and his mathematical equations we are still trying to parce out is one great example of this. All the math is there, the context is not.
minus-square@tunetardis@lemmy.calinkfedilink2•3 months agoI guess if you’re talking math, there’s Fermat’s Last Theorem whose proof (assuming it was legit) was lost for centuries.
Some of these things probably were recorded, then promptly lost or provided no context. Ramanujan and his mathematical equations we are still trying to parce out is one great example of this.
All the math is there, the context is not.
I guess if you’re talking math, there’s Fermat’s Last Theorem whose proof (assuming it was legit) was lost for centuries.