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Jada 2022-10-21 15:24:54
Aliens like to tease you
Came all the way to the earth, showed up and ran away.
I'm afraid you won't notice me, so I leave a radio wave for you to guess the riddle.
Cece Abbey
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Professor Hendricks: We are servants rather than masters of Mathematics.
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Professor Hendricks: I know you think that if we stare at that signal long enough, that something is going to click, but you can't force it. And I am certainly not the person who's going to help you crack it. I mean, math, science, physics? It's a young person's game. Riemann. Galois. Einstein.
Derek: Eugène Ehrhart was 60 when he got his PhD. The Ehrhart polynomial? Yitang Zhang was 57 when he proved that there were an infinite number of consecutive pairs of primes that were separated by less than 70 million.
Professor Hendricks: [reluctant] Two examples.
Derek: Schrodinger. Frohlich. Smale.
Professor Hendricks: [funny] Okay! Okay!
