(Phys.org)—As Yves Meyer was getting ready to publish a detailed mathematical proof that he had spent months working on,he decided do a final search of the existing literature. In the reference list of one of the papers he had just peer-reviewed, he noticed what he describes as a "weird" paper published in 1959 by Andrew Paul Guinand. Upon further investigation, and he was shocked to discover that Guinand had formulated the exact same proof to solve the same problem that Meyer had been working on,though the solution had remained deeply buried and totally forgotten.
Source: phys.org