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If it makes you feel better, famous Hungarian mathematician Paul Erdös didn't understand it either. One of his colleagues had to write a computer program simula
by bjourne 6y ago
If it makes you feel better, famous Hungarian mathematician Paul Erdös didn't understand it either. One of his colleagues had to write a computer program simulating it before he accepted it to be true.
- BrandoElFollito 6y agoNot only him, the publication of the paradox in a column in Science (if memory serves me right) dragged thousands of condescending answers from top mathematicians (some of them apologized afterwards, including the one who called the journalist the goat of the paradox)