there are a few outliers that only get widely recognized after decades, much longer than for typical insights
These sleeping beauties might happen more often the younger a field is. In particular, I don’t particularly care that (perhaps lesser) insights are spread quickly once a field is producing a lot of papers.
Anyways, some other examples are Taylor polynomials (!) and various discoveries by Tsiolkovsky on the mechanics of space travel.
These sleeping beauties might happen more often the younger a field is. In particular, I don’t particularly care that (perhaps lesser) insights are spread quickly once a field is producing a lot of papers.
Anyways, some other examples are Taylor polynomials (!) and various discoveries by Tsiolkovsky on the mechanics of space travel.