2019-07-14

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Numberphile

It was #3 on Hilbert's list of the most important problems in mathematics - until his student solved it.

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David Hilbert's problems: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hilbert%27s_problems

Max Dehn's famed proof: https://archive.org/details/mathematischean33behngoog/page/n488

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