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by nostrademons 5852 days ago
Why would a crackpot pay for this? Their incentive is for people not to find errors in their proofs, not for them to find errors.
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From talking to the mathy-side CS faculty in my department (UofC), the crackpots all think they've solved it. Genuinely, honestly, and completely.

These faculty complain about getting e-mail spam and sometimes even visits and phone calls out of the blue from people who claim to have solved it and want their proofs checked.