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by schoen 273 days ago
You should openly publish your discovery in a normal academic venue using standard terminology, notation, references, and constructions.

No one has time for secret proofs or secret methods or weird non-standard jargon.

I looked at your video and it does something completely undefined with geometry in the first few seconds. That's not how math makes progress, that's not how science makes progress. Engage with the scientific community. It actually knows stuff and actually knows how to evaluate ideas.

(If you can't do that, publish a SAT solver that solves arbitrary instances of SAT in polynomial time. Winning the annual international competition https://satcompetition.github.io/ would make everyone immediately take notice.)

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Well said. Other NP-complete problems might yield a better demo than SAT: for instance, algorithms for graph problems like coloring or Hamiltonian cycles can be executed on randomly generated large graphs, without the complication of parsing user inputs such as boolean formulas and without offering to the public a "service" that can be used to crack cryptography etc.