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Comment by jfengel

I didn't realize that open math problems were a finite resource.

I recall a story about some famous mathematician (Gauss?) dismissing interest in Fermat's Last Theorem claiming that he could crank out problems of equivalent interest.

Clearly Tao knows a hell of a lot more than I do about this, but I'm surprised that math that close to completion.

parent jfengel 1 month ago

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