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The solutions to the Poincare Conjecture and Fermat's Last Theorem would have been discovered before 2030 even if Grigori Perelman and Andrew Wiles had worked mid-level marketing jobs.
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- Noah Smith Economics writer; author of the Noahpinion newsletter
Grigori Perelman and Andrew Wiles could have just taken it easy and worked mid-level marketing jobs, and we'd have gotten the solutions to the Poincare Conjecture and Fermat's Last Theorem before 2030 anyway
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