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Was P!=NP proof author treated unfairly? (See blog post comments.)

• tzs 16y ago
  "There are two camps in our community on Deolalikar's paper. Those of us who saw Deolalikar's paper as just another in a long series of bad attempts at P v NP and wondering what all the fuss was about. And those who thought Deolalikar hit upon a new proof paradigm and despite the numerous problems, big and small, with the paper still hold hope something important will come out of it." It's interesting that the first group, the one that pretty much just glanced at the paper and dismissed it as obviously flawed (the blogger falls into that group), mostly consisted of people who are not big names in the field. They should probably take a step back and try to figure out why their betters thought it was worth taking a serious look at the paper.