ICM Conference (3)

After that, we kept chatting for quite a while.

We took turns writing and erasing equations until the blackboard was about half covered in chalk.

We never reached a conclusion.

Well, if we could have settled it here, why would the Clay Mathematics Institute have put up a million dollars?

Still, it wasn't as if I'd gained nothing.

‘The scale’s tipping.’

I looked up at the blackboard and murmured to myself.

As recently as this morning, I was split exactly fifty-fifty on whether singularities existed.

Fifty-fifty.

A perfectly balanced scale...