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daxfohl
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Andrew Wiles: what does it feel like to do maths?
Any other big proofs / theorems that came seemingly out of nowhere? Yitang Zhang's bounded prime gaps comes to mind. And of course that physics thing from that Swiss patent clerk guy, can't remember his name offhand.
willis77
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> that physics thing from that Swiss patent clerk guy
I think you're thinking of Carl deGrasse Feynman.
hiddencost
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Grigori Perlman dropped a proof of the Poincaré conjecture with little warning.
jseliger
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Yes. And Masha Gessen wrote an excellent book called
Perfect Rigor
about the proof and the man:
https://jakeseliger.com/2016/11/29/perfect-rigor-a-genius-an...
. Highly recommended.
typon
on Dec 6, 2016
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Hottest mixtape of all time
daxfohl
on Dec 7, 2016
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Granted he was one of the world's best two or three mathematicians at the time.
daxfohl
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Sphere packing in dim 8 and 24 (
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maryna_Viazovska
) and the "Set" game limit (
https://www.quantamagazine.org/20160531-set-proof-stuns-math...
) are two more recent examples.
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