The author is a Princeton math doctorate.
The author is a Princeton math doctorate.
in this case it's not original research, because there's a tweet by someone with a good reputation, and plenty of comments on said tweet corroborating the result. But it's a more sketchy "secondary source" than most wikipedia references and some caution on the part of the editors is not out of place.
(saying this as the person who made the original edit to the wikipedia page adding the counterexample)
What Wikipedia says about this doesn't matter, does it?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:No_original_research...
Of course given the magnitude of the statement a bit of care is warranted, but the rules do allow it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Reliable_sources#Sel...
> Self-published expert sources may be considered reliable when produced by an established expert on the subject matter, whose work in the relevant field has previously been published by reliable, independent publications.
Discovering the counter example is research, validating it is basic calculations.