The Art of Mathematics
The Art of Mathematics
Carol Jacoby
How to Find Something You’ve Never Seen
14 minutes Posted Nov 4, 2020 at 5:00 pm.
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Another seemingly easy problem that’s hard to solve. In fact, it's unsolved. Find an odd perfect number or prove one doesn’t exist. The search involves “spoof” answers, trying to find the right answer (or prove it doesn't exist) by looking at wrong answers. Hey, nothing else has worked.