It's pretty amusing that a big part of Matt Parker's legacy is having "Parker" being synonymous with being "almost correct" or a "near miss" (with big help from Brady Haran), to the point of being referenced in an actual maths preprint
@btcprox I'm reading the paper now, and I'm wondering if this is intentional. From page 2:
The Theorem follows immediately man.
@loke like an Uno Reverse to "the proof is trivial"
Imagine saying that to a panel during a thesis defence
@btcprox I don't usually read maths papers. Is things like this common?
It follows (we think?) that
K is a subring of the ring of integers of some cyclotomic field extension of the
rationals. That sounds useful but we weren’t able to do anything with it.
@loke I think the author is an exception as an independent researcher (apparently?): https://oeis.org/wiki/User:Onno_M._Cain
