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[-] MonkderDritte@feddit.de 7 points 2 months ago

Wasn't the formula to calculate turbulence from a russian math genius who lives somewhere in the woods, appeared with the solution and disappeared again?

[-] quilan@lemmy.world 24 points 2 months ago

I think you may be conflating something with the story of Perelman, who solved the Poincare conjecture (with its 1 million dollar prize), rejected the prize and basically told the math world to stuff it: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grigori_Perelman

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