[HM] Earliest priority dispute?
John W. Dawson, jr. (jwd7@psu.edu)
Wed, 19 May 1999 00:19:44 -0400
As Avinoam Mann reminds us, mathematicians (like other humans) are not
above petty disputes over priority. And that raises the question: What is
the earliest such dispute on record? (I'm not referring to disputes among
*historians* over who deserves credit for discovering particular results,
but disputes among the principals themselves.)
John Dawson