"What's new today that they may not have foreseen is the vast level of internetworking and human communication that arose from ubiquitous presence of computers and networks."
In an alternate universe, Godel published his proofs in a paper on arXiv in 2002. However it was largely overlooked or dismissed as the work of a crank, so he went back to his day job at MSR.
A casual reference to the paper in a comment on on Math Overflow five years later led to wider discussion and eventually to Scott Aaronson publicising it on his blog. Within a year the two theorems were accepted by the global mathematics community.
Since then, numerous blogs, subreddits, and Facebook posts have challenged the legitimacy of the proofs or claimed prior credit. Speculation persists on some parts of the internet that GCHQ or the NSA knew of the theorems as early as the 1950s.
In an alternate universe, Godel published his proofs in a paper on arXiv in 2002. However it was largely overlooked or dismissed as the work of a crank, so he went back to his day job at MSR.
A casual reference to the paper in a comment on on Math Overflow five years later led to wider discussion and eventually to Scott Aaronson publicising it on his blog. Within a year the two theorems were accepted by the global mathematics community.
Since then, numerous blogs, subreddits, and Facebook posts have challenged the legitimacy of the proofs or claimed prior credit. Speculation persists on some parts of the internet that GCHQ or the NSA knew of the theorems as early as the 1950s.