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"The usually quiet world of mathematics is abuzz with a claim that one of the most important problems in number theory has been solved.

Mathematician Shinichi Mochizuki of Kyoto University in Japan has released a 500-page proof of the abc conjecture, which proposes a relationship between whole numbers — a 'Diophantine' problem."

So how big is this? Is it the Higgs-particle of Mathematics?

So everywhere I get told "if you're young, you'll learn everything especially things like languages easier and when you're older it will be much harder or impossible".

I know that's true but where does the line go? You'll never be a virtuoso musician if you didn't pick up violing, piano whatever before turning 10 years old but if we're talking about language learning or the like, is it harder for me (20 years old) to learn a language than it's for 12 year old or 30 year old? My gut sense tell me that you'll pick up stuff really easily in the first 10 years of your life and when you're past your 30s or 40s it's much harder. But how 'bout people who are in high school or universities, are they still at a good learning age? Compared to little children or middle-aged people? Is it a steady declie in learning abilities or is there a magical drop?

I myself am always been good at languages (native finnish speaker, good english, moderate swedish, beginner japanese, russia a dream for now on) and I'm not lacking motivation or anything just curious.

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> That feel when you have couple of friends who you talk science and politics with
>That feel when your school is full of morons you don't care about
>That feel when everything feels awesome

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