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nilknyesterday at 7:25 PM2 repliesview on HN

Since this isn't in Lean and it's extremely easy for something like this to contain a subtle mistake, I think I'd prefer this be announced by a professional mathematician. The proof appears relatively short and elementary (not to be confused with easy -- just not using any advanced or modern machinery) so it shouldn't take long for the mathematics community to do a peer review. Without that, you could easily crank out hundreds or thousands of PDFs like this that all look plausible and are beyond the ability of a gifted amateur to review.


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bigmattystylesyesterday at 7:27 PM

But they used LateX

varjagyesterday at 7:57 PM

…and thank God it's not Lean.

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