Originally Posted by janvdl

Jerusalem - A mathematical mystery that has baffled the top minds in the esoteric field of symbolic dynamics for nearly four decades has recently been cracked - by a 63-year-old former security guard.

Avraham Trakhtman, a mathematician who worked as a labourer after immigrating to Israel from Russia, has succeeded where dozens have failed, solving the elusive Road Colouring Problem.

The conjecture essentially assumes that it is possible to create a "universal map" that would direct people to arrive at a certain destination, at the same time, regardless of their original location. Experts say this proposition, which seems to defy logic,