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I can't seem to find it, but I was under the impression that some famous mathematician (I had Erdos in mind, but that's clearly wrong) solved an open problem du
by fovc 10y ago
I can't seem to find it, but I was under the impression that some famous mathematician (I had Erdos in mind, but that's clearly wrong) solved an open problem during a math olympiad in the 1950s. Perhaps that was just an tall tale our trainers would tell us, though!
- pmiller2 10y agoErdős would have been nearly 40 in 1950, FYI (far too old to be competing in math olympiads).