SolveIt comments on New Monthly Thread: Bragging - Less Wrong

30 Post author: Joshua_Blaine 11 August 2013 05:50PM

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Comment author: SolveIt 12 August 2013 05:59:32AM 14 points [-]

Yeah just three weeks ago. The proofs are all complete and the guy in charge of writing it up should almost be finished. It'll probably take some time to get published though. I met Conway at a maths summer camp in Germany, and he told us students about the Prague clock problem. A friend, a grad student volunteering there, and I worked on the problem for a few days and pretty much solved it, and Conway said we should write a paper together. I was incredibly lucky, of course. Recreational mathematics isn't how one expects to get an Erdos number. It was a wonderful experience, and John Conway is an amazing man. I've never seen anyone that could delight so much in almost trivial mathematics. Kinda explains how he became great.

Comment author: Dan_Moore 12 August 2013 01:43:53PM 1 point [-]

It must be this you are referring to. Congratulations!

Comment author: [deleted] 12 August 2013 08:13:26PM 0 points [-]

Congratulations! Will it be published behind a paywall? Any chance that we will get to read it?