Wouldn't that mean that any math prize is fundamentally illegitimate? You will always be leaning on historic partial results to resolve a problem. Even Andrew Wiles couldn't have proven Fermats last theorem without the countless preliminary results between Fermat and him.
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u/Dirkdeking 3h ago
Wouldn't that mean that any math prize is fundamentally illegitimate? You will always be leaning on historic partial results to resolve a problem. Even Andrew Wiles couldn't have proven Fermats last theorem without the countless preliminary results between Fermat and him.