Some Comments on Multiple Discovery in Mathematics

DOI10.5642/JHUMMATH.201701.14MaRDI QIDQ6081182zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors R. W. Whitty

Publication date 25 October 2023

Published in Journal of Humanistic Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Copyright license Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1412.3718

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

General and miscellaneous specific topics (00A99)

Abstract: Among perhaps many things common to Kuratowski's Theorem in graph theory, Reidemeister's Theorem in topology, and Cook's Theorem in theoretical computer science is this: all belong to the phenomenon of simultaneous discovery in mathematics. We are interested to know whether this phenomenon, and its close cousin repeated discovery, give rise to meaningful questions regarding causes, trends, categories, etc. With this in view we unearth many more examples, find some tenuous connections and draw some tentative conclusions.

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