The Longest Standing Mathematical Conjecture That Was Actually False

Looking into one of the longest running conjectures that was disproved 😮
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Link to the paper that disproves the conjecture: https://www.researchgate.net/publicat...

Just for clarity: the supremum of a set is its least upper bound and the infimum is its greatest lower bound :) sorry for any confusion!

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