[paulpauper]

finally a quanta article in which the math is easy to understand

The binomial series is just algebra. You take something like (a+b)^3 and then you generalize the rule for exponents to any value and , presto done. My question is, when did math become so much harder? I think the quntic formula was when math finally became what It is today. This required a whole new conception of math . How do you go from a simple formula a high school student can grasp, which made Newton a genius because he co-discovered it, to 60+ pages of dense notion at phd level?

[wrycoder]

This was posted at least five times, without much action, until the full title was used. It turns out that the Quanta editor was good at picking titles.