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Nature 419, 563 (10 October 2002) | doi:10.1038/419563a
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Mathematics off the main line
John O'Connor1
Mathematicians like to trace the ancestry of their subject back to the Renaissance and then, with a bit of disruption due to the Dark Ages (and some help from Islamic and Indian mathematicians), back to the Ancient Greeks, and perhaps even earlier to the Babylonians, Egyptians or the oldest Middle Eastern civilizations that we know of. More recently, however, we have become aware that many of the important ideas that we have placed on this main line of development were discovered independently in a variety of other societies.
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