Unknown German Retiree Proved The “Gaussian Correlation Inequality” Conjecture

ChefCouscous's avatarMath Online Tom Circle

https://www.wired.com/2017/04/elusive-math-proof-found-almost-lost

$latex boxed {P (a + b) geq P (a) times P (b)}&fg=aa0000&s=3$

Case “=” : if (a, b) independent
Case “>” : if (a, b) dependent

Thomas Royen used only high-school math (function, derivative) in his proof in 2014. He then published it in arxiv.org website – likePerelman did with the “Poincaré Conjecture”.

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Math amateur

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