{"id":3227,"date":"2021-02-10T21:29:40","date_gmt":"2021-02-10T21:29:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/presswiki.allmath.gr\/wpwiki18\/?p=3227"},"modified":"2021-02-10T21:30:41","modified_gmt":"2021-02-10T21:30:41","slug":"the-shortest-known-paper-published-in-a-serious-math-journal-two-succinct-sentences-open-culture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/presswiki.allmath.gr\/wpwiki18\/2021\/02\/10\/21\/29\/40\/3227\/","title":{"rendered":"The Shortest-Known Paper Published in a Serious Math Journal: Two Succinct Sentences | Open Culture"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cdn8.openculture.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/shortest-math-paper.jpg\"><img class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-106255 lazy-loaded\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn8.openculture.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/shortest-math-paper.jpg\" sizes=\"(max-width: 880px) 100vw, 880px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn8.openculture.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/12074922\/shortest-math-paper.jpg 880w, https:\/\/cdn8.openculture.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/12074922\/shortest-math-paper-150x75.jpg 150w, https:\/\/cdn8.openculture.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/12074922\/shortest-math-paper-300x150.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cdn8.openculture.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/12074922\/shortest-math-paper-768x384.jpg 768w\" alt=\"shortest math paper\" width=\"880\" height=\"440\" data-lazy-type=\"image\" data-src=\"https:\/\/cdn8.openculture.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/shortest-math-paper.jpg\" data-srcset=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mathworld.wolfram.com\/EulersSumofPowersConjecture.html\">Euler\u2019s conjecture<\/a>, a theory proposed\u00a0by\u00a0<a title=\"Leonhard Euler\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Leonhard_Euler\">Leonhard Euler<\/a> in 1769, hung in there for 200 years. Then\u00a0L.J. Lander and T.R. Parkin came along in 1966, and debunked the conjecture in two swift sentences. Their article \u2014 which is now open access and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ams.org\/journals\/bull\/1966-72-06\/S0002-9904-1966-11654-3\/S0002-9904-1966-11654-3.pdf\">can be downloaded here<\/a> \u2014 appeared in the\u00a0<em>Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society<\/em>. If you\u2019re wondering what the conjecture and its refutation are all about, you might want to ask <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/pickover\">Cliff Pickover<\/a>, the author of 45 <a href=\"http:\/\/sprott.physics.wisc.edu\/pickover\/bookscp.html\">books on math and science<\/a>.\u00a0He brought this curious document\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/pickover\/status\/585271919991095296\">to the web<\/a> last week.<\/p>\n<p>\u03a0\u03b7\u03b3\u03ae: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2015\/04\/shortest-known-paper-in-a-serious-math-journal.html\">The Shortest-Known Paper Published in a Serious Math Journal: Two Succinct Sentences | Open Culture<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Euler\u2019s conjecture, a theory proposed\u00a0by\u00a0Leonhard Euler in 1769, hung in there for 200 years. Then\u00a0L.J. Lander and T.R. Parkin came along in 1966, and debunked the conjecture in two swift sentences. Their article \u2014 which is now open access and can be downloaded here \u2014 appeared in the\u00a0Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society. 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