{"id":108147,"date":"2020-06-04T00:03:33","date_gmt":"2020-06-04T07:03:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/the-mystery-is-over-greek-mathematician-successfully-solves-78-year-old-maths-problem"},"modified":"2020-06-04T00:03:33","modified_gmt":"2020-06-04T07:03:33","slug":"the-mystery-is-over-greek-mathematician-successfully-solves-78-year-old-maths-problem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/the-mystery-is-over-greek-mathematician-successfully-solves-78-year-old-maths-problem","title":{"rendered":"The mystery is over: Greek mathematician successfully solves 78-year-old maths problem"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/the-mystery-is-over-greek-mathematician-successfully-solves-78-year-old-maths-problem2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A Greek mathematician has found the answer to a mind boggling maths problem that has remained unanswered for 78 years \u2013 until now.<\/p>\n<p>Associate Professor of Mathematics Dimitris Koukoulopoulos together with Oxford University research professor James Maynard, has solved the Duffin and Schaeffer Conjecture.<\/p>\n<p>First expressed in 1941 by mathematicians R J Duffin and A C Schaeffer, the last time a mathematician showed promise in solving the problem was in 1990. But it wouldn\u2019t be until 29 years later that it would be fully proven by Koukoulopoulos and Maynard \u2013 two relatively young mathematicians, both aged in their 30\u2019s.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Greek mathematician has found the answer to a mind boggling maths problem that has remained unanswered for 78 years \u2013 until now. Associate Professor of Mathematics Dimitris Koukoulopoulos together with Oxford University research professor James Maynard, has solved the Duffin and Schaeffer Conjecture. First expressed in 1941 by mathematicians R J Duffin and A [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2229],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-108147","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mathematics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108147","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=108147"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108147\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}