b.evill at spamblocker.tyndale.apana.org.au (Brett Evill) writes:
>In article <dbrower.906574832 at senna>, dbrower at us.oracle.com (David Brower)
>wrote:
>>Personally, I'm not all that swayed by individual contributions.
>>Those who cite giants, even Newton, need to consider how delayed
>>discoveries would be in the absence of such people -- Galileo was
>>inching on discovering gravity, so other may have done it within 50
>>years of Newton, and Euler did independantly discover the techniques
>>of the calculus.
>Leibnitz, not Euler.
Oops, that's probably one of the reasons I'm not likely to be a
candidate for the next millenium either. Sigh.
-dB
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