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Maths whizz solves a master’s riddle

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Terence Tao builds on an online collaboration to successfully attack the Erdős discrepancy problem.

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  1. Tao, T. Preprint available at http://arxiv.org/abs/1509.05363 (2015).

  2. Konev, B. & Lisitsa, A. Preprint available at http://arxiv.org/abs/1402.2184 (2014).

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Cesare, C. Maths whizz solves a master’s riddle. Nature 526, 19–20 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1038/nature.2015.18441

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