Brian Wecht

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852 appearances 2 recordings 1 series first heard Aug 2026 last heard 5 Sep

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Sometimes there are uh reasons you can't do that.

Uh but the conjecture was that as long as this one condition is satisfied, I can always

Is have some polynomial that maps from n variables to the same number of variables over here and reverse that.

Okay?

This is one of Smail's problems, and it was regarded as an interesting problem in math.

Um over the years, various people have tried to prove this.

There was some disagreement in the math community.

Was it true?

Was it false?

False means you found a counterexample, typically speaking.

You can't actually prove that things are false but not know a concrete example.

But the EV.

Easiest way to prove something false is to find a specific example where it doesn't work.

And over the years, there was various debate and some uh attempted proofs that were then shown to be wrong.

You know, stuff like this happened over the years.

Uh the mathematician Stuart Wang showed that it is uh the Jacobian conjecture, if in order for it to be true, the the degree of the polynomials.

That is the powers you raise them to has to be greater than two.

So you can't do it just with squares, for example.

Okay?

So if we're looking for a counterexample, it's got to be cubes or higher.

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