<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font size="4"><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">The inability of the mathematical community to figure out if the proofs of the ABC conjecture and the Riemann hypothesis are valid makes me wonder if that could have implications for another unsolved problem, is P= NP? If they are not equal then you’d expect it would be fundamentally easier to check a proof than find a proof, but then why are world class mathematicians unable to check them? If I have a valid proof of the ABC conjecture but it would take you as much brain power to understand it as it would for you to find a proof of it on your own have I accomplished anything of value, would there be any point in you reading it?</span><br style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><br style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">John K Clark</span></font><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Tue, Sep 25, 2018 at 11:05 AM William Flynn Wallace <<a href="mailto:foozler83@gmail.com">foozler83@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default"><font color="#000000" face="comic sans ms, sans-serif"><a href="https://www.sciencealert.com/top-mathematician-sir-michael-atiyah-solved-a-160-year-old-1-million-maths-problem-riemann-hypothesis" target="_blank">https://www.sciencealert.com/top-mathematician-sir-michael-atiyah-solved-a-160-year-old-1-million-maths-problem-riemann-hypothesis</a></font><br></div><div class="gmail_default"><font color="#000000" face="comic sans ms, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font color="#000000" face="comic sans ms, sans-serif">in case y'all missed it</font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font color="#000000" face="comic sans ms, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font color="#000000" face="comic sans ms, sans-serif">bill w</font></div></div></div>
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