alt Hacker News> with more brute force and using obscure literature results,
Is that true? Look at the average math paper on arxiv. Of course it's obscure to those not in the exact sub-field - math has become very specialized.
> with more brute force and using obscure literature results,
Is that true? Look at the average math paper on arxiv. Of course it's obscure to those not in the exact sub-field - math has become very specialized.
What I meant is e.g. the unit distance construction, which (per mathematicial comments) needed a combination of distant fields, so nobody had the necessary expertise. That's different from working within one obscure field.