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Nature 426, 594 (11 December 2003) | doi:10.1038/426594a

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Mystery remains as journal withdraws paper

John Whitfield

A mathematics journal has withdrawn a paper that claimed to crack one of the discipline's great mysteries after reviewing and accepting the work and publishing it online.On 18 November, Nonlinear Analysis published a paper by Elin Oxenhielm — a postgraduate student in mathematics at the University of Stockholm, Sweden — which presented itself as a solution to the second part of Hilbert's sixteenth problem, one of a set of challenges laid out by German mathematician David Hilbert in 1900.