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theDoug
This was also good the last three times today it appeared on HN. :)
sidww2
The reason I posted a link regarding the same topic again is because this is a link to a blog post by a respected complexity theorist which actually discusses the proof albeit cursorily.
cgranade
In all fairness, this is an article by someone who knows his stuff saying maybe. There's so many crackpots going after P ≠ NP that we need to hear from those people saying this time is different. The news to this article isn't that a claimed proof exists, but that R. J. Lipton is saying it seems plausible.
sidww2
Yeah - I updated the post title to make that a bit more clear.
ilkhd2
[jokingly] Would be interesting to know, what Does Perelman think about the proof? At least it is not from math community, so probably it is ok to take the million...
po
Reading Lipton's description of this paper I think I understand how normal people feel when they listen to geeks talk about technology.