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The explanation I hear most often for this is that foundational papers often start de novo. But much of this effect - maybe most of it - is that the ideas from foundational papers enter our culture and colonize it. Turing 1950 may well be much easier to read today than in 1950.https://twitter.com/nabeelqu/status/1181298253381476353 …
There's something funny too about how foundational papers often appear as end points in other investigations. Turing 1936 is, in some sense, an end point to a long and rather esoteric line of investigation about the foundations of mathematics.
Another interesting force is specialization. As funding for science & the number of scientists grows, there is naturally more specialization. The result is a narrowing in _who_ you're writing for (& resulting exclusion). People & papers get more specialized for systemic reasons.
We figured out how to formalize computability! Oh, and by the way, you can build computers.
I'm reminded of the way lemmas proved en route sometimes turn out to be a paper's major contribution. And perhaps for related reasons - the lemma is often a practical way of solving problems that arise frequently. (Trying to think of examples... Schur's lemma is a good one.)
It's also much less easy to read today than Turing 1950
Very true. But a _lot_ easier to read today than it would have been in 1936. Ideas like programmability, universality, machine state etc are all commonplace today. Not so 1936!
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