The Math That Powers Modern AI Was Invented Three Times, Separately (math.ucdavis.edu)
Eugenio Beltrami published the singular value decomposition in 1873. Camille Jordan published the identical result a year later in France, apparently without reading Beltrami. James Joseph Sylvester found it again in 1889. G.W. Stewart's 1993 paper, now on Hacker News, retraces how a tool now core to linear algebra got invented three separate times before anyone noticed.
In the thread, a computer vision researcher who has used SVD professionally for years admitted Claude and Codex now write most of that code for him.
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