Re: Inefficiency of secret research?

I know this example isn't physics, but at least it is recent.

Andrew Wiles effectively carried out the bulk of the research proving
Fermat's Last Theorem in secret, and that seems to have been pretty
efficient (seeing as how the proof had evaded everyone else for over 2
centuries)

Ian Taylor

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