The Shortest-Known Paper Published in a Serious Math Journal: 2 Succinct Sentences

A small note, in the spir­it of con­struc­tive crit­i­cism:

>Euler’s con­jec­ture, a the­o­ry pro­posed by (…)

A con­jec­ture is not a the­o­ry, it is a con­jec­ture; leave it at that. It’s some­thing that you guess is true but don’t know how to prove.

>and debunked the con­jec­ture

“debunk” is harsh. You “debunk” a hoax, maybe. You *dis­prove* a con­jec­ture, or, more causal­ly, you “show it to be false”.

> If you’re won­der­ing what the con­jec­ture and its refu­ta­tion are all about, you might want to ask

What the con­jec­ture is, is writ­ten right there, on the last line of those “two swift sen­tences”. But ok, I sup­pose many of your read­ers may appre­ci­ate a bit of hand-hold­ing — although it’s pret­ty read­able, as long as you remem­ber what an “nth pow­er” is.

Any­way, I don’t mean to be harsh, hope you take this in the way I meant it.