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To: maceng2 who wrote (68670)	10/20/2005 11:57:53 PM
From: kormac	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 74559

I think your quote came from James Gleick's Chaos. The most important reason why Myrberg's paper was not noticed is that it was published in the Finnish Academy of Sciences Journal. Mathematicians who work on complex variable theory know this journal because Finland has a long history in this field, starting with Lindelöf. The point is that Feigenbaum went to all the conferences to discuss his result and that is when chaos theory took off. Even Lorenz's paper was ignored for some time. Once all this stuff is open, people like to start giving priority to some former famous figure. History is full of this kind of stuff. A good case is John Herepath, who is unknown, but had most of the pieces in place for kinetic theory. Poincare's contributions were well known for the best part of last century, but chaos only became popular during late 70's.