Comment on What are the most mindblowing fact in mathematics?
Sharkwellington@lemmy.one 11 months agoBut even famous mathematicians didn’t believe it at first.
They emphatically did not believe it at first. Marilyn vos Savant was flooded with about 10,000 letters after publishing the famous 1990 article, and had to write two followup articles to clarify the logic involved.
Artisian@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Oh that’s cool - I had heard one or two examples only. Is there some popular writeup of the story from Savant’s view?
Sharkwellington@lemmy.one 11 months ago
I couldn’t tell you - I used the Wikipedia article to reference the specifics and I’m not sure where I first heard about the story. I just remember that the mathematics community dogpiled on her hard for some time and has since completely turned around to accept her answer as correct.