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by redox99 14 days ago
Do questions like goldbach conjecture, fermats last theorem, etc deserve more credit than whoever answers them?
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Fermat's last theorem probably doesn't. While attempts to solve it have led to many mathematical discoveries, the theorem itself feels little more than a piece of trivia. I'm less familiar with the implications of the Goldbach conjecture.

In contrast, class NP and NP-completeness quickly became central concepts in theoretical computer science.