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Here’s a proof with just a few words that got published in a serious math journal: https://fermatslibrary.com/s/shortest-paper-ever-published-in-a-serious-math-

• seanhunter 1y ago
  Notice that one of the authors is John H. Conway. Serious badass, among many many other things known for: - The game of life - The fractran language (a Turing-complete programming language consisting only of fractions) - Surreal numbers - The “Conway base 13 function” (a brain-scramblingly hideous function that is everywhere discontinuous and yet somehow takes on every real number on every interval - invented as an analysis counterexample to prove that a function can satisfy the intermediate value property and yet not be continuous). - A lot of work on sporadic simple groups. The three groups Co1, Co2 and Co3 are named after John H. Conway, and he was co-author of the “Monstrous Moonshine” paper and conjecture that Richard Borcherds won the Fields medal for proving. … and a bunch of other whacky stuff, such as inventing an algorithm to figure out what day of the week any given date in history was (he used to do this in his head) Sadly he died of complications from Covid. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Horton_Conway https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Horton_Conway