I'm not sure why this hit my buttons, as it's not my area of expertise, yet I found it very interesting. Avraham Trahtman, 63 year old Russian mathematician who used to work as a plumber & maintenance guy in Israel, has solved (paper with solution) an interesting problem in graph theory. Unlike other famous problems with few applications, this appears to have some (network routing) and he's published an updated paper with a sub-quadratic algorithm.
I think it has been captured in news coverage more as a result of his age and story than importance of the problem.
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