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the bible
Quite a few sections of both the Hebrew bible and the New Testament have scholarly consensus on authorship.
Is there a symbol for the squiggly equals sign?
Here is a link to the Wikipedia entry: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Differential_(mechanical_devic...
Mind you, this may not be a good answer to the question, because there are a couple of claims for the invention.
Read up on Bourbaki, the original Satoshi. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicolas_Bourbaki
The names of the members of Bourbaki are now known, as per the Wikipedia link, so they are not an example of persistent anonymity.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
Describing this as 25 year old math problem is a bit misleading. There might have been two or three otherwise not noted mathematicians that have looked at the problem a couple of times after dinner during the last 25 years -- is a better description.
Can you explain how you know that?
The invention that impresses me is the differential gear. The National Museum of Scotland, when I lived there, had a cut-away exhibit taken from a car. I played with it, and for the first time, understood how it worked. Two days later, I could not reconstruct it in my mind! Unclear who invented it. Here is a link to the Wikipedia entry: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Differential_(mechanical_devic... Mind you, this ma…
Many women published research under pseudonyms in the past, for example Sophie Germain: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sophie_Germain So I'd argue that many past inventions that are credited to men might actually have been achieved by women scientists publishing under their husbands / colleagues / friends name as a pseudonym. In Paris I once saw an original print of Marie Curie's book on radioactivity, where her name…
The 1911 Solvay Conference photo illustrates just how exceptional a woman scientist was then: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solvay_Conference she's there at the table with Henri Poincaré.