3 ms·
Linked on the page is an opinion poll [0] with responses from some prominent mathematicians (including Shor, Conway and Knuth). I thought it was really interest
by dlkf 5y ago
Linked on the page is an opinion poll [0] with responses from some prominent mathematicians (including Shor, Conway and Knuth). I thought it was really interesting to hear their thoughts on the problem.
[0] http://www.cs.umd.edu/~gasarch/papers/poll.pdf http://www.cs.umd.edu/~gasarch/papers/poll.pdf
- jstx1 5y agoConway didn't care much for it, did he: > (P!=NP) In my opinion this shouldn’t really be a hard problem; it’s just that we came late to this theory, and haven’t yet developed any techniques for proving computations to be hard. Eventually, it will just be a footnote in the books.