[seqfan] Re: Two math theses in comparison

[W. Edwin Clark]

On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 5:46 PM, Richard Mathar
<mathar at strw.leidenuniv.nl>wrote:

>
>  I am wondering: is it quite usual in Mathematics that the content of two
> theses (although written in different languages) has such a massive
> overlap?
>
>
It has happened at least once before. See the history of the Krohn-Rhodes
Theorem
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krohn%E2%80%93Rhodes_theory#History_and_applications