Timeline for Is the product of first $n$ prime numbers $+1$ another prime number?
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| Jun 22, 2022 at 8:13 | history | edited | CommunityBot |
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| Jan 11, 2010 at 15:33 | comment | added | kolistivra | Thanks, now I'm more convinced that I should stop(at least until I get a little more advanced in math=)) searching for a qualitative, non-computational answer. | |
| Jan 11, 2010 at 12:49 | comment | added | user1073 | @Qiaochu - Perhaps you're thinking of George Dantzig? He arrived late to a class and confused two open problems that the prof had written on the board for homework. A few days later he turned in their solutions! | |
| Jan 11, 2010 at 12:45 | comment | added | Qiaochu Yuan | There's a story about a famous result in computer science being solved in exactly that way, although I don't remember which one it is at the moment. | |
| Jan 11, 2010 at 10:25 | comment | added | Emil | I believe John Nash put unsolved problems in his exams, because he thought that if the students did not realize how hard they were, they might actually be able to solve them! | |
| Jan 11, 2010 at 10:00 | history | answered | Pete L. Clark | CC BY-SA 2.5 |