Not a mathematician, but I have tilted at the P vs. NP windmill enough to have a sense of what you're talking about. It is indeed an awe-inspiring experience.

Not a mathematician, but I have tilted at the P vs. NP windmill enough to have a sense of what you're talking about. It is indeed an awe-inspiring experience. I think I learned something by trying it (beyond the obvious lesson in humility, heh), but I'd be very hard put to say what that was.