HN – Five disciplines discovered the same math independently

Author here. We found the same mathematical structure appearing independently in physics (phase transitions), finance (market crashes), ecology (extinction cascades), neuroscience(neural criticality), and network science (cascade failures).

Each field derived it from first principles. Each named it differently. Minimal cross-citation. The affiliated scientific paper traces this convergent discovery and asks: if the same structure keeps emerging, what does that tell us about how we organize knowledge?

Five disciplines discovered the same math independently

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