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As he was brushing his teeth on the morning of July 17, 2014, Thomas Royen, a little-known retired German statistician, suddenly lit upon the proof of a famous conjecture at the intersection of geometry, probability theory, and statistics that had eluded top experts for decades.
Known as the Gaussian correlation inequality (GCI), the conjecture originated in the 1950s, was posed in its most elegant form in 1972 and has held mathematicians in its thrall ever since. "I know of people who worked on it for 40 years," said Donald Richards, a statistician at Pennsylvania State University. "I myself worked on it for 30 years."
[...] No one is quite sure how, in the 21st century, news of Royen's proof managed to travel so slowly. "It was clearly a lack of communication in an age where it's very easy to communicate," [Bo'az] Klartag said.
"But anyway, at least we found it," he added—and "it's beautiful."
[...] The "feeling of deep joy and gratitude" that comes from finding an important proof has been reward enough. "It is like a kind of grace," he said. "We can work for a long time on a problem and suddenly an angel—[which] stands here poetically for the mysteries of our neurons—brings a good idea."
Source: https://www.wired.com/2017/04/elusive-math-proof-found-almost-lost
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Tuesday August 07 2018, @11:27AM (8 children)
I didn't and TFS doesn't contain one.
But for your delicate Tuesday morning (Tuesday's gray ... and Wednesday too), here it is [arxiv.org]
Picked from the quantamagazine, which originally published [quantamagazine.org] the story (still fluffy).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 2) by opinionated_science on Tuesday August 07 2018, @11:47AM (1 child)
there was a "Paper" link, that pleasantly, contain a reference to the text.
Many links, do not....;-/
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Tuesday August 07 2018, @12:04PM
Ah, yes, now that you hinted what to look for, I see it.
Alone on its line, carefully squeezed between the fluffy content on top and the bottom line of the border surrounding TFS. For a better effect, I would suggest the editor to enclose the link between <sub></sub> tags, it will make it less evident.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 2, Informative) by khallow on Tuesday August 07 2018, @12:12PM (2 children)
(Score: 2) by Fnord666 on Tuesday August 07 2018, @02:33PM (1 child)
(Score: 1) by khallow on Tuesday August 07 2018, @10:19PM
(Score: 3, Informative) by maxwell demon on Tuesday August 07 2018, @02:23PM (2 children)
Please link to the abstract page for arXiv papers. Getting from the abstract to the paper is trivial. Getting from the paper to the abstract is a PITA.
The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.
(Score: 2) by Fnord666 on Tuesday August 07 2018, @02:30PM
(Score: 3, Informative) by c0lo on Tuesday August 07 2018, @02:43PM
Ok.
For the occasions it accidentally does not happen, seems that the PITA is manually replacing 3 letters and deleting other 4. Like in:
https://arxiv.org/pdf/1408.1028.pdf
to
https://arxiv.org/abs/1408.1028
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford