If you are wondering what sort of idiot would dispute a math problem with Newton, it was not a dispute at all; it's not even clear that they had a discussion at

If you are wondering what sort of idiot would dispute a math problem with Newton, it was not a dispute at all; it's not even clear that they had a discussion at all: https://hsm.stackexchange.com/questions/5148/how-did-newton-guess-that-the-answer-to-the-3-dimensional-kissing-problem-is-1 https://hsm.stackexchange.com/questions/5148/how-did-newton-...