Hi, Ed. << This has already been disproven via a counterexample. The paper is from last year, and was disproven last year. Why the news services are picking up on an old, known-wrong proof is a mystery.

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I remember hearing de Branges was working on a proof but not the upshot. In any case, could this "proof" respresent an attempt to fixw whatever was wrong with the one last year? Regards, Dan