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I hate how every article written about it seemed hell bent into trying to make it look like it was some random weeb who channeled his love for anime to come up with a proof when most people in that thread were mathematicians who knew exactly what they were trying to prove. The board is literally called Science & Math. Fucking journalists, man.
*weeb mathematicians who knew exactly what they were trying to prove and channelled their love for Haruhi to come up with a proof
Well, yeah, it's 4chan, that's a given. What I'm trying to say is that it wasn't some Good Will Hunting situation. It was competent people doing what they do for a living.
Yeah. Good Will Hunting scripts make money...
I'm also not a fan of the title. They didn't "stumble upon" the proof, they walked directly towards it lol.
"The hacker named 4chan"
I don't personally think Anon knew exactly what he was trying to prove (otherwise he would have published the proof already), but it is definitely true that the problem was posted on a forum that specifically catered to people with the kinds of skillsets that would be capable of solving these problems. Most likely Anon probably just saw this as a simple math challenge without any deeper meaning
Everyone else in the thread was talking about the traveling salesman. I won't completely rule out that he, personally, didn't know because mathematicians are weird af and it is possible that he came to the thread, didn't read any comment on it and just posted the solution, but it would be very strange.