Mathematicians discover a perfect way to multiply (2019)
"For millennia it was widely assumed that there was no faster way to multiply. Then in 1960, the 23-year-old Russian mathematician Anatoly Karatsuba... found it."<p>I have a bizarre mental tic wherein I will often read a story like this and then fantasize about going back in time to just before the discovery, and present it myself, in essence stealing it. I'll get quite far along in my daydream before the absurdity collapses the narrative.<p>Are there others of my kind, here?