Solving

Should you discover your­self grap­pling with an intel­lec­tu­al prob­lem that’s gone unsolved for mil­len­nia, strive tak­ing a number of months off and spend­ing them on activ­i­ties like swim­ming and med­i­tat­ing. That very strat­e­gy labored for a Cam­bridge PhD stu­dent named Rishi Rajpopat, who, after a sum­mer of non-research-relat­ed activ­i­ties, returned to a textual content by…