<< No one really solves a problem like this on their own ... >> Quite so --- "If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of Giants". [ Though one does not infrequently discover that some wretched Giant has already seen further, and furthermore did so a good deal earlier! ] WFL On 5/1/20, Brad Klee <bradklee@gmail.com> wrote:
No one really solves a problem like this on their own; though, Perelman, I think, is a hero—I just can’t imagine the amount of irrational persecution he must have gone through.
I’m not in the Million dollar prize fight, but if I manage to prove anything, I’m sure the worst part will be jealousy and nitpicking from the naysayers.
—Brad
On Apr 30, 2020, at 10:15 PM, Fred Lunnon <fred.lunnon@gmail.com> wrote:
Sounds a tad sanctimonious, I know --- but I wonder how many people on this list would
(A) prefer solve a Clay prize problem by their own unassisted efforts;
and
(B) in consideration of the consequences for the average individual of sudden wealth, do a Grigori Perelman if they won.
WFL
On 5/1/20, Keith F. Lynch <kfl@keithlynch.net> wrote: Math humor on Twitter: How to solve the Millennium math problems and win millions of dollars:
https://twitter.com/MathematicsUCL/status/1255875396257615875
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