>>9525235Well, we STILL can't solve "How are the prime numbers distributed?" That requires solving the Riemann Conjecture.
It's not a "fair" question. We solve different problems today than they did in the past. Mathematicians have better tools now. They can build on past proofs. And they have computers which enable them to confirm (or falsify) SOME hypotheses quickly. Computers can't to everything though. A computer could disprove Fermat's last theorem, but never prove it was true. Not by just testing a finite number of integers, anyway.
All it means is that mathematicians can now tackle problems which would have stumped Gauss. (Which is not to say that Gauss might not do better than current mathematicians if he was revived today.)
