I was at the beginning of my highschool years and being a poker nerd I heard about Andrew Beal, an amateur mathematician and poker player. He offered a prize fo

I was at the beginning of my highschool years and being a poker nerd I heard about Andrew Beal, an amateur mathematician and poker player. He offered a prize for a proof of Beal's conjecture, I was learning Pascal and decided to write a program to find a counterexample. Searching different optimization techniques I found a blog where a guy was trying to win the prize for his little girl. After some years, in college (CS) I learned that the guy was Peter Norvig. Great rabbithole.