My daughter was frustrated by an activity in a math class where they had to solve as many problems as they could in a minute. I told her this bears no connection to actual mathematics—I’d been working on the problem I just solved for 20 years, which blew her mind!
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.@samitdasgupta, a mathematician at Duke University, answered a century-old math question using a formula he wrote in 2004 for his doctoral thesis. “Half my life I’ve been working on this, so it’s very satisfying to have finally completed the proof.” quantamagazine.org/mathematicians
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