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Sometimes writing it down means very little. Like Perelman's Poincaré conjecture solution. It took some of the best mathematicians years to even prove it being
by soperj 6y ago
Sometimes writing it down means very little.
Like Perelman's Poincaré conjecture solution. It took some of the best mathematicians years to even prove it being correct.
- blackrock 6y agoDidn’t the Egyptians write it down? But we still have no idea how to understand their hieroglyphics. Or how they even figured out their math.
- rrmm 6y agoSome light info on it: https://www.storyofmathematics.com/egyptian.html https://www.storyofmathematics.com/egyptian.html
- bingerman 6y agoI don't think they proved the correctness, just read it very thoroughly and were convinced by Perelman's reasoning.