Timeline for Name of amateur who gave a new proof of the Ramanujan-Nagell theorem?
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| Dec 13, 2017 at 19:09 | comment | added | Stopple | @TimothyChow I like your idea better - it fits all the facts. | |
| Dec 13, 2017 at 18:45 | comment | added | Timothy Chow | When I wrote to Ian Stewart in 2010, he replied, "I recall the incident, but I don't have any information about it any more. We moved building some years ago and a lot got thrown out. Sorry." This neither proves nor disproves your theory but I thought it was worth mentioning. An "intermediate" theory is that everything about the story is correct except that the "new" proof of Ramanujan-Nagell turned out to be not so new after all once it was examined by an expert, and so it wasn't published. | |
| Dec 13, 2017 at 17:45 | history | answered | Stopple | CC BY-SA 3.0 |