A Puzzle of Clever Connections Nears a Happy End

20/07/2017 11 min
A Puzzle of Clever Connections Nears a Happy End

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The three young friends who devised the “happy ending” problem would become some of the most influential mathematicians of the 20th century, but were never able to solve their own puzzle. Now it receives its first big breakthrough. The post A Puzzle of Clever Connections Nears a Happy End first appeared on Quanta Magazine