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A comment on How Math’s Most Famous Proof Nearly Broke (2015).

Re:How Math’s Most Famous Proof Nearly Broke (2015) by xiaoxiae on Friday December 21, 2018 @07:02AM (#18732837)
That was quite an enjoyable read.

It's so interesting that a problem so simple to explain would require hundreds of pages of proof.

I'm really interested in whether the Collatz conjecture will be proven too.

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Re:How Math’s Most Famous Proof Nearly Broke (2015) by kzrdude on Friday December 21, 2018 @10:46AM (#18733994)
Maybe you'll like this FLT related story too, it's the most worthwhile numberphile video:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=nUN4NDVIfVI

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