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A retired German man has found the proof to a complex geometry and probability problem that experts have tried to solve for decades, only for his achievement to go largely unnoticed.
Thomas Royen was reportedly brushing his teeth when he struck upon an idea in July 2014.
Then 67 years old, the former statistician for a pharmaceutical company, from Schwalbach am Taunus, a town on the edge of Frankfurt, found the solution to the conjecture, known as the Gaussian correlation inequality (GCI).
But at the time, Mr Royen’s cogent solution had gone largely unheralded and is still slowly permeating the scientific community, Quanta Magazine reports.
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Thomas Royen was reportedly brushing his teeth when he struck upon an idea in July 2014.
Then 67 years old, the former statistician for a pharmaceutical company, from Schwalbach am Taunus, a town on the edge of Frankfurt, found the solution to the conjecture, known as the Gaussian correlation inequality (GCI).
But at the time, Mr Royen’s cogent solution had gone largely unheralded and is still slowly permeating the scientific community, Quanta Magazine reports.
Retired man solves one of hardest maths problems in the world and no one notices
Thomas Royen found the solution at the age of 67 while brushing his teeth
www.independent.co.uk
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