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But the key question is: what were the clearest signals at the time, the sort of signals you had a chance to notice and recognize?
In my case, it was the fact that brilliant mathematicians had tried to prove these results for generations. No matter how brilliant I think myself, it would be unlikely for me to have found a simple proof where everyone else had failed.