Abstract
This chapter describes some of the outstanding mathematical discoveries which have taken place during the last half century, focusing on what they say about how far human mathematical powers extend. They suggest that we are already quite close to our biological limits as far as the difficulty of proven theorems is concerned. Topics discussed include the four colour problem, Goldbach's conjecture, Fermat's last theorem, finite simple groups, algorithms, and how to handle hard problems.
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