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Published online 6 October 2006 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news061002-14
Corrected online: 9 October 2006

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Has famous maths problem been solved, and in only a month?

Has $1 million maths problem been cracked using novel techniques?

A buzz is building that one of mathematics' greatest unsolved problems may have fallen.

Blogs and online discussion groups are spreading news of a paper posted to an online preprint server on 26 September.

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