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Still one of my favourite stories. One of the first times i thought of math as something more than just the thing one does at school to get a good mark.
If you want to get your kid interested in this kind of thing, do what my high school math teacher did: make him read the book i recommended here #751636 @cryotosensei maybe an idea for your students? ;)
Honestly I wouldn’t even want to read this book for myself haha
It took me a long time to finish The Housekeeper and the Professor
My review: #545252
Have you been tempted to add something like Fermats Last Theorem, or any of the Millennium Prizes, to your daily puzzles, just to see what would happen?
I think I once posted a bonus question that had no known solution, but I added the caveat not to spend too much time on it. Don't remember what it was though and SN search is not helping me find it.
This reminds me of that story they used in Good will Hunting about George Dantzig:
Maybe I should.
But I'm sure people here who'd have an inkling of chance at solving one of these likely would recognize it as a Millenial problem or other unsolved problem.
I'm sure none of us would have even an inkling of a chance :D
I was thinking the Collatz Conjecture looks unassuming enough that people would actually start to attempt it