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Re:A story of the rise and fall of a serious attempt at a pr... by corecirculator on Thursday August 20, 2009 @01:45PM (#775618)
Isn't it generalizing too much? Andrew Wiles worked on Fermat's last theorem for 7 yrs in secret, nobody even knew he was working on it until he published the results.
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Re:A story of the rise and fall of a serious attempt at a pr... by gchpaco on Thursday August 20, 2009 @02:00PM (#775662)
Wiles is widely regarded as odd, to put it mildly, for that effort. And it still didn't work and he had to get a former student in to help fix the proof.
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