alt Hacker News> However, it seems the proof is extremely concise so it seems that it is exploiting a clever trick that somehow all the experts missed.
Why is that a "however"? My reading is that it found a genuinely new solution that is both elegant and previously missed.
Seems like exactly the kind of result a human mathematician would aspire to.
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ak_111 • yesterday at 9:32 PM
clever tricks has value for sure. But the main way progress is done in mathematics is by building new theory, the proof of Fermat's Last Theorem is much more important because of the math it created to solve the problem, rather than actually solving the problem.
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> a human mathematician would aspire to
Some do. But there's also the notion that a clever trick is a bad explanation.