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I can't help comparing this to the extreme absence of self-promotion in the most prominent example of somebody doing this who turned out to be the real thing (P

• gjm11 17y ago
  Yeah. But you've got to be careful; lots of people dismissed Louis de Branges' claim to have proved the Bieberbach conjecture because he also had a long history of self-promotion (and, indeed, of claiming to have proved things when his proofs really had holes). But he really did prove the Bieberbach conjecture. Then again, he also keeps claiming to have proved the Riemann hypothesis and no one believes him :-).
  • gruseom 17y ago
    You obviously know more about this than I do. That's a very interesting case.