> They're named after Pierre Bézier . . . publishing his investigations in 1962
> One might be tempted to say that the mathematician Paul de Casteljau was first,
investigating the nature of these curves in 1959
> Bézier curves are, at their core, "Bernstein polynomials",
a family of mathematical functions investigated by Sergei Natanovich Bernstein,
with publications on them at least as far back as 1912.
I see many stories like this, which shatter the idea of a lone inventor bringing something new out of thin air.
Hmm, I don't think anyone who actually learned even a modicum of maths history holds that idea, though. Where were you made to believe the idea of one person coming up with complete solutions all on their own?
