[OJFord]

The title, and the biography of those that cracked it, does.

But I don't think it's false. The point is that this hyper-specialised; hyper-abstract field of mathematics, which nobody outside of had a grip on, rather suddenly came to be shown equivalent to many problems in many fields.

One such field & problem was (still mathematics, if you like, and) accessible to these computer scientists.

I particularly enjoyed:

    > “It seemed so natural, so central to the kinds of things 
    > I think about,” he said. “I thought, ‘I’ve got to be
    > able to prove that.’” He guessed that the problem might
    > take him a few weeks.
    > 
    > Instead, it took him five years.