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A researcher at HP thinks he has a proof of P!=NP. If so it would be the most important mathematics result at the very least since Wilson proved Fermat's Last Theorem, and possibly since the Church-Turing thesis. Math bloggers seem a bit skeptical, though.
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Wiles proved FLT. I think a strong argument could be made that the proof of the Poincare Conjecture was a bigger result than FLT.
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That paper was hot. First I saw some existential quantifiers and was turned on by the logic, then I noticed cartesian products and unions. It was at this point I realized they threw set theory into the mix. Wow. I think I need a break after that.
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