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Debate Over P vs. NP Proof Highlights Web Collaboration
Debate Over P vs. NP Proof Highlights Web Collaboration
8/16/2010
A claimed proof for one of the most vexing mathematical problems, P versus NP, set off shock waves online, demonstrating the potential of Web-based collaboration.
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Debate Over P vs. NP Proof Highlights Web Collaboration
A claimed proof for one of the most vexing mathematical problems, P versus NP, set off shock waves online, demonstrating the potential of Web-based collaboration.
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Claimed Proof That P != NP
morsch writes "Researcher Vinay Deolalikar from HP Labs claims proof that P != NP. The 100-page paper has apparently not been peer-reviewed yet, so feel free to dig in and find some flaws. However, th...
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Possible Issues With the P != NP Proof
An anonymous reader writes "We previously discussed news that Vinay Deolalikar, a Principal Research Scientist at HP Labs, wrote a paper that claimed to prove P is not equal to NP. Dick Lipton, a Prof...
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No P = NP Proof After All
00_NOP writes "Internet commerce seems safe for now as Russian computer scientist Vladimir Romanov has conceded that his previously published solution to the '3 SAT' problem of boolean algebra does no...
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How the Web Rallied To Review the P != NP Claim
An anonymous reader writes "Remember, about a month ago, when a researcher claimed he had a proof that P != NP? Well, the proof hasn't held up. But blogs and news sites helped spur a massive, open, co...
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Attempt At P ? NP Proof Gets Torn Apart Online
What happens when Twitter and online communities filter scientific discovery ahead of professionals? As we saw this week, a lot of fuss over a result that will ultimately be discarded into the dustbi...
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