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RE: I used to be really good at math but then
I'd be interested in the problem and the supposed proof or a rough sketch of it.
And yes. There is value in still learning mathematics. I'm doing a cryptography class (more to come soon!).
That's the spirit! I try to learn a new topic every year. Last year I took a course in remote sensing. I believe that if you work in mathematics, there are always useful connections that you can make between different fields.
It was like tan^2x=sin something or other, I could probably go ask my old teacher assuming he's still there and I think he is. I think he'd remember it more-so than me .. ergh, it was something that was well known to be unsolvable until he plugged it in on a graph, but this was like 15 years ago, I'm sure someone ran into it and proved it with ease by now. I remember arguing that it could be solved, but somehow I got the wrong proof and arrived at the correct answer.. quite a few times lol.
One of the students had his mom help him who was a math teacher and she claimed it wasn't solvable either. Heh, when school starts I'll see if he's still around but it'll be far after the breadth of this post I'm sure :).
You say there's value in it, but what value? I might have to hit the google for this but was hoping for some interesting answers and a few bucks here.