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I will never grow tired of people solving old and famous unsolved mathematical problems while being unaware of how old and famous they are quantamagazine.org/graduate-st

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also it's sad that Conway died just before this was solved

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@noiob he probably heard of it I think (the paper was out in February, IIRC he died last month?)

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@emptyfortress oh! I should've looked more closely at the dates. Still sad though

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@noiob

oh yeah it is

I wonder what he said when he learned it was solved

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