{"id":111612,"date":"2020-08-19T15:29:26","date_gmt":"2020-08-19T22:29:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/08\/mathematicians-solve-part-of-the-weirdest-open-problem-ever"},"modified":"2020-08-19T15:29:26","modified_gmt":"2020-08-19T22:29:26","slug":"mathematicians-solve-part-of-the-weirdest-open-problem-ever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/08\/mathematicians-solve-part-of-the-weirdest-open-problem-ever","title":{"rendered":"Mathematicians Solve Part of the Weirdest Open Problem Ever"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/mathematicians-solve-part-of-the-weirdest-open-problem-ever.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Two mathematicians say they\u2019ve untangled the first part of Paul Erdos\u2019s famously thorny and unproven conjecture. In a new paper they\u2019ve uploaded to arXiv and submitted to journals, mathematicians Thomas Bloom and Olof Sisask say they\u2019ve jumped the first hurdle in the Erdos conjecture. If this is true, the next generation of researchers could start from that point with the first part finished and in hand.<\/p>\n<p>\u2797 You love numbers. So do we. Let\u2019s nerd out over numbers together.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two mathematicians say they\u2019ve untangled the first part of Paul Erdos\u2019s famously thorny and unproven conjecture. In a new paper they\u2019ve uploaded to arXiv and submitted to journals, mathematicians Thomas Bloom and Olof Sisask say they\u2019ve jumped the first hurdle in the Erdos conjecture. If this is true, the next generation of researchers could start [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2229],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-111612","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mathematics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111612","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\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=111612"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111612\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=111612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=111612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}