Student Resolves Long-Standing Addition Limit Issue

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Student Resolves Long-Standing Addition Limit Issue
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A graduate student at the University of Oxford, Benjamin Bedert, has solved a long-standing problem about the limits of addition related to sum-free sets, confirming that in any set of integers, there exists a large sum-free subset, advancing understanding in a fundamental area of mathematics originally posed by Paul Erdős in 1965.

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