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The problems are uninteresting in the sense that the audience for these papers doesn't find them interesting. In particular, I'm not making any sort of logical
by impendia 2y ago
The problems are uninteresting in the sense that the audience for these papers doesn't find them interesting.
In particular, I'm not making any sort of logical claim -- rather, I know many of the people who read and write these papers, and I have a pretty good idea of their taste in mathematical writing.
- zozbot234 2y agoWell, you did claim that the problem could be worked out with simply high school math. It would certainly be 'interesting' if such problems could not be answered by automated means. (For example, I think many mathematicians would find the IMO problems interesting, even though the statements are specifically chosen to be understandable to high-school students.) The problem of how to write an automated procedure that might answer problems similar to the one you stated, and what kinds of "hints" might then be needed to make the procedure work for any given instance of the problem, is also interesting for similar reasons.