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Does anyone remember seeing this answer/comment? (A famous result known earlier than believed)
You are thinking of the question Two-colouring the two-sphere, where a certain problem seemingly in discrete geometry was explained to be related to quantum mechanics.
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Does anyone remember seeing this answer/comment? (A famous result known earlier than believed)
I posted a comment or an answer somewhere not long ago, saying that a result published by Tom Apostol in 2000, which some have called "Apostol's method" or the like, is one that I presented ...
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