Kadison–Singer problem
It started as a question about the foundations of quantum mechanics and was shown equivalent to problems in a dozen fields. The solution came from graph theory, through interlacing polynomials, the same method the authors used to build Ramanujan graphs. A question in operator algebras was settled by a combinatorial method.
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Posed 1959, Richard Kadison and Isadore Singer. Closed 2013, Adam Marcus, Daniel Spielman and Nikhil Srivastava.
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