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Re:The Cathedral and the Bizarre by Koshkin on Saturday December 14, 2019 @07:42PM (#21793545)
Well, to be fair, a textbook is not a theorem or an enjoyable novel... Also, a movie is not made by a “herd” (unless one thinks of a company as a herd.) Wikipedia would be a better example.
Re:The Cathedral and the Bizarre by eindiran on Saturday December 14, 2019 @09:14PM (#21794009)
The Elements of Mathematics volumes weren't exactly textbooks and contained novel proofs. Also, the Bourbaki group published some papers containing novel theorems. For example:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bourbaki%E2%80%93Witt_theorem