[Jerrrrrrry]

the idea of a deep-nation-state-cold-war psyop campaign bluffing and escalating math proofs is so goddamn hilarious, apt, and ironic it would be almost better than the mistake of pissing off the Aliens by offending them with math homework.

"Shizuo Kakutani joked that the problem [Collatz conjecture] was a Cold War invention of the Russians meant to slow the progress of mathematics in the West."