Proposed places a conjecture in the year it was first stated. Wikipedia records the Poincare conjecture as proposed "in 1904," the starting point of nearly a century of failed and partial attempts before it was finally resolved. Browsing by proposed year traces how long an unresolved question has actually stood.
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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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