alt Hacker NewsPurely academic, there are no direct applications or anything unlocked by knowing the value; the benefits are all in what was learned along the way.
Purely academic, there are no direct applications or anything unlocked by knowing the value; the benefits are all in what was learned along the way.
But there were reasons this problem was looked at rather than another problem. We can see that not all problems are equally interesting to mathematicians, and it's not simply about complexity or difficulty.
So the goals are hard to pin down exactly, but there are goals.