Timeline for What is the oldest open problem in mathematics?
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| Sep 15 at 15:13 | comment | added | Brondahl | @RichardStanley if you'd like to re-post it yourself, for internet points, I'll happily delete my copy. | |
| Sep 15 at 15:13 | comment | added | Brondahl | I've copied this answer verbatim (with attribution) to a question I've opened asking specifically about this metric ("Longest open that has been solved"). | |
| Oct 27, 2023 at 17:56 | comment | added | Richard Stanley | I retract my retraction. | |
| May 28, 2023 at 12:51 | comment | added | Peter LeFanu Lumsdaine | As per my answer (and others) here, modern classical scholarship seems to be that the problem is essentially authentic — that certainly some version of the problem genuinely goes back to Archimedes, and the specific poetic text of it we have today may be by Archimedes himself or, if not, was probably based on earlier versions that descended from him. | |
| Dec 31, 2022 at 12:35 | history | edited | Martin Sleziak | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
http -> https (the question was bumped anyway)
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| Jul 6, 2022 at 15:35 | comment | added | Richard Stanley | I retract my answer. | |
| Aug 1, 2011 at 13:09 | comment | added | Ron Maimon | It is dubious to attribute this to Archimedes--- it has the flavor of European 17-19th century puzzle mathematics, and it's attribution to Archimedes is folklore. | |
| May 29, 2011 at 21:08 | history | edited | Dylan Thurston | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
fix link
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| Oct 3, 2010 at 0:37 | history | answered | Richard Stanley | CC BY-SA 2.5 |