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Re:A Solution of the P versus NP Problem? by westoncb on Monday August 14, 2017 @04:58PM (#15012817)
Unlikely considering the author of the paper. I'm basing that on other comments on the thread which this section seems to be missing, e.g.:

> ...this guy is an established senior researcher at the University of Bonn

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Re:A Solution of the P versus NP Problem? by hnaccy on Monday August 14, 2017 @08:06PM (#15014202)
Even experienced people can make "silly" mistakes. https://arxiv.org/abs/1612.04208v1
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Re:A Solution of the P versus NP Problem? by westoncb on Monday August 14, 2017 @09:03PM (#15014486)
They can—but that doesn't mean we should assume it's a silly mistake (as opposed to a deep one) without more information than that he's an accomplished researcher.
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Re:A Solution of the P versus NP Problem? by KGIII on Monday August 14, 2017 @10:12PM (#15014787)
To add to this, I have a Ph.D. in applied mathematics. I am also an accomplished researcher, albeit retired.

I make more mistakes by 09:00 than most people will make all day. Hell, my girlfriend would suggest that we can move that time forward a couple of hours.

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