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H.I. #79: From Russia with Love

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The Riemann Hypothesis

I find that stuff so interesting and obviously I can't follow any of the details of it. But just like there's something really satisfying about mathematical proofs. Once you've proven there's an infinite number of primes that are separated by an arbitrary number, it feels like, Oh, I can see how that's a toehold to try to work towards your solution. It seems like it must be incredibly pleasing and satisfying work to move a proof forward step by step. That has to be very satisfying for professional mathematicians. If someone somewhere makes a breakthrough ... I'd run to it. He's not like Andrew Wiles sitting up in a his attic working on for Mars last year and all

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