Surprising theorems

🕑 4 min • 👤 Thomas Graf • 📆 June 08, 2019 in Discussions • 🏷 history, literature, formal language theory

Time for a quick break from the on-going feature saga. A recent post on the Computational Complexity blog laments that theorems in complexity theory have become predictable. Even when a hard problem is finally solved after decades of research, the answer usually goes in the expected direction. Gone are the days of results that come completely out of left field. This got me thinking if mathematical linguistics still has surprising theorems to offer.


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