this post was submitted on 05 May 2024
1254 points (98.5% liked)

Funny: Home of the Haha

5702 readers
1320 users here now

Welcome to /c/funny, a place for all your humorous and amusing content.

Looking for mods! Send an application to Stamets!

Our Rules:

  1. Keep it civil. We're all people here. Be respectful to one another.

  2. No sexism, racism, homophobia, transphobia or any other flavor of bigotry. I should not need to explain this one.

  3. Try not to repost anything posted within the past month. Beyond that, go for it. Not everyone is on every site all the time.

Other Communities:

founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
[email protected]
1254
The Researcher (lemmy.world)
submitted 6 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
80 comments fedilink hide all child comments
 
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] [email protected] 69 points 6 months ago (3 children)

Someone once solved a 25 year old math problem and posted the proof on 4chan.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 6 months ago

I love the subtitle. The fact that it was

A debate over the most efficient way to watch a cult classic TV series' episodes, in every possible order

makes it completely believable.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Wasn't the formula to calculate turbulence from a russian math genius who lives somewhere in the woods, appeared with the solution and disappeared again?

[–] [email protected] 24 points 6 months ago

I think you may be conflating something with the story of Perelman, who solved the Poincare conjecture (with its 1 million dollar prize), rejected the prize and basically told the math world to stuff it: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grigori_Perelman