Mathematician's 'Mysterious' New Method Just Solved a 30-Year-Old Problem

Dupe.

We covered this about a month back [0]. The link was much better too: Scott Arronson's blog.

Also, Knuth/Ben-David's shortened proof [1], announced as a comment on Arronson's blog.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20338281

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20589216