[anm89]

Jean-Baptiste Fourier

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Joseph Lagrange

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Leonhard Euler 1726

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Johann Bernoulli 1694

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Gottfried Leibniz 1666

I was never aware of this connection. Is there some reasons or story behind how all of these geniuses clustered together?

[bgriirtuh]

It's hard to succeed in academia if you aren't in a lineage.

See Castelvecchi, D. "Majority of mathematicians hail from just 24 scientific ‘families’". Nature 537, 20–21 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1038/nature.2016.20491

https://www.nature.com/articles/nature.2016.20491

[alfiedotwtf]

Same goes with classical piano, and Kung Fu.