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A comment on Claude Shannon: How a Genius Thinks, Works, and Lives. Parent comment

Re:Claude Shannon: How a Genius Thinks, Works, and Lives by Grustaf on Friday July 21, 2017 @04:37PM (#14823600)
I meant specifically for Einstein and Shannon. I’m not so sure anyone was right on the heels of Einstein, and at least physics seems to be full of discoveries that nobody even anticipated.
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Re:Claude Shannon: How a Genius Thinks, Works, and Lives by bjl on Friday July 21, 2017 @06:00PM (#14824024)
Lorentz and Minkowski were developing special relativity at the same time as Einstein (albeit in a mathematical context). And Hilbert arguably produced general relativity prior to Einstein as well.
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