I don’t mean I proved it. I just meant that I worked at it long enough that I became pretty confident I wouldn’t be able to do it. Edited my earlier post to make that clearer.
The 4-colour theorem is not outside mathematics. I think I sort of understand what you mean by ‘demonstrated satisfactorily’ but in my experience such demonstrations aren’t worth much, not only can they be wrong in principle, they are often wrong in practice. Mathematics is nothing if not counter-intuitive.
If you really did prove the 4-colour theorem at age 10 then dreams of fame and glory would have been quite justified.
I don’t mean I proved it. I just meant that I worked at it long enough that I became pretty confident I wouldn’t be able to do it. Edited my earlier post to make that clearer.
I understand that, I was being intentionally facetious.
Demonstrated satisfactorily =/= 100% proven
Most things outside mathematics can never be proven, but many can easily be demonstrated satisfactorily.
The 4-colour theorem is not outside mathematics. I think I sort of understand what you mean by ‘demonstrated satisfactorily’ but in my experience such demonstrations aren’t worth much, not only can they be wrong in principle, they are often wrong in practice. Mathematics is nothing if not counter-intuitive.