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by User23 1382 days ago
A real life example from Computing Science is Edsger Dijkstra. His contributions to the field were extensive, but from talking to people and Google search results he’s now just the minimum spanning tree guy.
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I'd say he's the cranky hot takes guy, because outside of academic writing, that's what people quote the most.
In the case of Von Neumann, his contributions are so extensive that he ends up flanderized even though the flanderization in question still pegs him as a multifaceted person
Collapsing multi-faceted contributors to a single algorithm considered harmful?