As another commenter pointed out, being able to crack NP problems quickly will give you theorem provers.
At that point quantum computing research will receive gobs of funding -- and our knowledge will absolutely explode.
You can debate whether it's the absolute top discovery, but this would be a lever to shift around the entire math and computer science field. If it wasn't a shaky paper, of course.
At that point quantum computing research will receive gobs of funding -- and our knowledge will absolutely explode.
You can debate whether it's the absolute top discovery, but this would be a lever to shift around the entire math and computer science field. If it wasn't a shaky paper, of course.