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by BasDirks 1572 days ago
This is not true at all, in the domain of computer science there are no concrete examples of this.
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The meme commands me to obey:

Terry Tao once famously published a result with non-mathematicians Denton et al., and was bombarded by responses (including my own first math paper) showing the result previously published in many different ways in several fields of math. Of all that Tao has accomplished as a Fields medalist and espoused “greatest living mathematician”, this became the most famous single moment of his career.

https://terrytao.wordpress.com/2019/08/13/eigenvectors-from-...

I really appreciate this comment, it was exactly what I was hoping for.