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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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Era Of Emergence
1850 1
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1. Mathematical Logic (Wikipedia)
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Mathematical logic emerged in the mid-19th century as a subfield of mathematics, reflecting the confluence of two traditions: formal philosophical logic and mathematics.
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