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I seriously can't believe that a problem that has evaded mathematicians for decades could turn out to have a 9 page elementary proof! I don't know whether to b
by openasocket 10y ago
I seriously can't believe that a problem that has evaded mathematicians for decades could turn out to have a 9 page elementary proof!
I don't know whether to be excited that, maybe, other hard problems in mathematics could have such elementary proofs, or depressed that mathematicians took so long to solve a problem with such a simple answer :)
- noobermin 10y agoOr it was ignored because it didn't have an author from Harvard or Princeton on it.