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by sp332 3865 days ago
Word spread quickly through the mathematics community that one of the paramount problems in C * -algebras and a host of other fields had been solved by three outsiders — computer scientists who had barely a nodding acquaintance with the disciplines at the heart of the problem.
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Theoretical computer science is mathematics
But it's not "discipline at the heart of the problem".