But the drama here is a little important. Stealing the millennium prize for N-S is sort of a big deal, especially to those who had been working on it for the last few years.
Boosters have posited this conjecture since the beginning: “who cares how a proof comes about, math is math, the proof is all that matters”.
Regardless of mathematicians stating the methods outstrip the proof’s importance, still amazing we got an explicit social counterexample as well so quickly.
> Ignoring the drama
But the drama here is a little important. Stealing the millennium prize for N-S is sort of a big deal, especially to those who had been working on it for the last few years.
Attempts to steal $1,000,000 for a solution to Millennium Prize Problem have become a tradition, apparently.
Boosters have posited this conjecture since the beginning: “who cares how a proof comes about, math is math, the proof is all that matters”.
Regardless of mathematicians stating the methods outstrip the proof’s importance, still amazing we got an explicit social counterexample as well so quickly.