Template:Did you know nominations/Lonely runner conjecture

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The result was: promoted by SL93 (talk) 22:25, 1 June 2022 (UTC)

Lonely runner conjecture

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... that random runners are lonely? Source: https://doi.org/10.1016%2Fj.jcta.2012.02.002
- Reviewed: not done (2nd nomination of mine)
- Comment: There is barely anything "hooky" about this topic, but this is an unsolved problem in mathematics, with a partial result that, if the conditions are random, it is true (with probability one). Can't think of any alternate fun hooks.

Improved to Good Article status by Ovinus (talk). Self-nominated at 18:35, 26 May 2022 (UTC).

General: Article is new enough and long enough
New enough: Long enough:

Policy: Article is sourced, neutral, and free of copyright problems
Adequate sourcing: Neutral: Free of copyright violations, plagiarism, and close paraphrasing:

Hook: Hook has been verified by provided inline citation
Cited: Interesting:

QPQ: None required.

Overall: My only concern is that the article is technical and difficult to understand. The lede to the article does give an intelligible summary, though. I am a new reviewer. Second opinion welcome. — rsjaffe 🗣️ 21:15, 27 May 2022 (UTC)

That is a very valid concern and I'm always open to critiques. If there is anything you think can be explained more simply, please let me know; my goal is to have the introduction and most of the formulation be accessible to high schoolers, and everything south of "Implications" to be understandable to undergraduate math students. Ovinus (talk) 04:28, 28 May 2022 (UTC)