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Catalan's constant is irrational!!!

That is a big one. Exciting times to be alive. Regrettably I can't understand the proof at this point.

There was a (flawed) proof submitted a month back:

I wonder if it gave part of the inspiration.

Come on, these are easy. You assume it can be expressed as p/q where p,q are integers such that GCD(p,q)=1. Then you derive a contradiction.

/s

TBH, I'm both happy and very sad I didn't do a PhD in math (or at all).