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peterfirefly on April 8, 2023 | parent | context | favorite | on: Why human societies developed so little during 300...

Some of it kinda did (Archimedes + a long line of mathematicians up to at least Fermat).

So why not earlier? Because the others didn't have Fermat to learn from.

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