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Topic: Famous math problems
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Bart Goddard

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Re: Famous math problems
Posted: Feb 18, 2011 7:21 AM
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Ostap Bender <ostap_bender_1900@hotmail.com> wrote in news:ed1449b5-127f-
4102-bcc4-ce8f6d9750a3@z27g2000prz.googlegroups.com:

> On Feb 17, 10:56 pm, Joe Snodgrass <joe.s...@yahoo.com> wrote:
>> Did any of the usual popularizers of math ever write any books for the
>> general audience on the topics of either P/NP or the Reimann
>> hypothesis?  TIA.
>
> Well, P/NP can be reduced to 1/N
>

Well, the real difficulty is its ambiguity.
We don't know whether to reduce it to 1/N or P^2/N.
See:

http://tinyurl.com/2g9mqh

for an intelligent, unbiased analysis of this.

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Cheerfully resisting change since 1959.

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