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Bayes' Theorem, fundamental in Bayesian statistics, was considered unremarkable by Thomas Bayes and so not published.After Bayes' death, Richard Price edited Bayes' manuscript for reading at the Royal...
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Leonard James Rogers (1862 - 1933) obtained degrees in Mathematics, Classics and Music from Oxford. During 1888-1919 he was Professor of Mathematics at Yorkshire College, before returning to his Alma...
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Jean-Robert Argand published his geometrical interpretation of the complex numbers as points of the plane in 1806. It become a standard way of dealing with these numbers and now sometimes the complex...
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One of the most famous examples is the Gauss's diary which was discovered in 1897.
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Ramanujan's Lost Notebook is one such collection of mathematical results. It consists of loose and unordered sheets of paper in which the Indian mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan recorded the...
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Bolzano.Here is a copy of an answer of mine from MathOverflow:Bernhard Bolzano .... ( interesting reading ) Much of his work was unpublished until much later (for reasons see the link), thus remaining...
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Is the Fast Fourier Transform a mathematical result? The point might be debated but its history has been well researched (e.g. Heideman et al., (1984). Gauss and the history of the fast FFT. IEEE ASSP...
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Liouville published Galois' work a decade after the death of this singular mathematician. Are there other cases of results being rescued by the mathematical community long after their authors were...
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