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Swedish Student Partly Solves 16th Hilbert Problem

Posted by timothy on from the my-calculator-is-broken dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Swedish media report that 22-year-old Elin Oxenhielm, a student at Stockholm University, has solved a chunk of one of the major problems posed to 20th century mathematics, Hilbert's 16th problem. Norwegian Aftenposten has an English version of the reports."

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  1. I think more math problems would be solved... by Pflipp · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    ...if only they managed not to present them so dull and un-understandable.

    Most often when you think that you've finally found the solution, it appears that the only thing that you've solved is the meaning of the dang problem description.

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