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by houseabsolute 5788 days ago
It's a leaked PDF of an unverified proof which has yet to appear in any mainstream news source and is relevant, probably, to no one but computer scientists. So it's not even remotely surprising that it has not yet appeared on Google News. I have no idea what part of this you think is sad.
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Jun8 5788 days ago
This result is much more relevant than either Perelman's proof of the Poincare Conjuncture or Wiles' proof or Fermat's Conjuncture, both of which got huge coverage in the mainstream media. If you think this is relevant to "no one but computer scientists" you are naive about the ramifications of the result.

The proof is unverified but most qualified sources say it is one of the best efforts in many years, it could even be the proof. This was the #1 news in most technical blogs yesterday.

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xyzzyz 5787 days ago
The thing is, we can't talk about any result yet. So far, we only have a paper which didn't even underwent peer-review. I'm sure it will get enormous media coverage, but not sooner than it gets published.
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