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. Number Theory (Wikipedia)
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The earliest historical find of an arithmetical nature is the Plimpton 322, dated c. 1800 BC.
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