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"- A professor at the University of Missouri-Columbia is being recognized for solving a math problem that had stumped his peers for more than 40 years.

The achievement has landed Steven Hofmann an invitation to speak next spring at the 2006 International Congress of Mathematicians in Madrid, Spain."

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20051227/ap_on_re_us/math_problem

In my country some professors where shot.
Shocking no.
But this happened.
Something is seriously wrong.

That averages to 20 words each. It shows you the importance of product over process (and perhaps the need for a better proofreader). One presumes the paper was rather more generous with its symbolics.