I had this argument with my brother too, who is a mathematician. He was able to enjoy it on its own terms, I wasn't. As he concluded, "they couldn't solve an i

I had this argument with my brother too, who is a mathematician. He was able to enjoy it on its own terms, I wasn't. As he concluded, "they couldn't solve an interesting problem, so they solved an uninteresting one instead." And from a certain stance, these fabricated problems do hold a bit of interest, especially when you consider how many mathematicians go out of their way to be impractical. Referencing the games confuses their work more than anything else, though.