17 Jun
2020
17 Jun
'20
9:36 a.m.
I glanced at that yesterday and immediately didn't understand a number of terms that were used, like "the compositum of all abelian and all totally p-adic extensions of Q" for a fixed prime p. The math articles in Quanta explain things at an extremely low level and never seem to rise to mention things at a higher level. The Quanta article on this research seemed to barely mention that all the polynomials being considered had integer coefficients. It *was* mentioned, but very casually, as if it hardly mattered. —Dan Mike Stay wrote: ----- Here's numthe paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/1912.12545 -----