3:08 The book _Proofs and Refutations_ by Imre Lakatos is actually a fairly historically accurate account of this, except the names of the people involved have been changed. Presumably to protect the innocent! But there are some notes relating the conjectures and definitions to various historical figures. However, it is rather a long time ago that I read it so I may be talking nonsense!
Just a small nitpick: a problem being in NP and co-NP doesn't mean that it is necessarily hard, does it? Since those classes both contain P. If it was also NP-hard that would of course be a different story, but as far as I know it's still unknown whether it is.
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3:08 The book _Proofs and Refutations_ by Imre Lakatos is actually a fairly historically accurate account of this, except the names of the people involved have been changed. Presumably to protect the innocent! But there are some notes relating the conjectures and definitions to various historical figures. However, it is rather a long time ago that I read it so I may be talking nonsense!
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Just a small nitpick: a problem being in NP and co-NP doesn't mean that it is necessarily hard, does it? Since those classes both contain P. If it was also NP-hard that would of course be a different story, but as far as I know it's still unknown whether it is.
Right. I took the "NP and coNP" as an indication that something is hard, but yes, it could still be "easy" 😀