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A Puzzle of Clever Connections Nears a Happy End

Jul 20, 201712 min
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Episode description

The three young friends who devised the “happy ending” problem would become some of the most influential mathematicians of the 20th century, but were never able to solve their own puzzle. Now it receives its first big breakthrough.

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