Rumors swirl of a claimed proof of the Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer conjecture
_onionesque · x · 2026-09-11
A rumor is circulating that the Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer conjecture, one of the Millennium Prize Problems, may have been proven. The poster hopes the result holds up and warns that it could still be flawed — and that a counterexample rather than a proof would be disappointing at this point.
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