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chvid 19 days ago | parent | context | favorite | on: Formalizing Fermat's Last Theorem

Who cares about some billionaire paying another billionaire a million dollars?

WHat matters is our understanding of maths, and whether this sort of thing makes us smarter or stupider.

euroderf 19 days ago [–]

Proving Riemann sure would clean up a lot of contingent/dependent number theory.

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