TimS comments on Intellectual insularity and productivity - Less Wrong
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If I write a book with the primary goal of teaching calculus, then spend 2/3 of the book arguing that Leibniz invented calculus before Newton, I'm likely to fail at teaching calculus.
If I title the book, "Leibniz was Right," I'm just compounding the error, right?