Posed by names the mathematician who first stated a conjecture. Wikipedia notes the Poincare conjecture was "originally conjectured by Henri Poincare in 1904," nearly a century before anyone managed to prove it. This dimension connects a conjecture back to the person who first put it into words.
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1. Wikipedia: Combinatorics
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In the later twentieth century, however, powerful and general theoretical methods were developed, making combinatorics into an independent branch of mathematics in its own right.
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