Are hard math problems unsolved because only one person works on each?
alz_zyd_ · x · 2026-09-07
@alzzyd follows up on his own quip about math's no-scooping norm: it seems many unsolved hard problems remain unsolved because roughly one person works on each problem and everyone else simply leaves them alone—a pointed observation on math's research culture.
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