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Titans of Mathematics Clash Over Epic Proof of ABC Conjecture

Erica Klarreich — Thu, 20 Sep 2018 18:30:13 +0000

In a report posted online today, Peter Scholze of the University of Bonn and Jakob Stix of Goethe University Frankfurt describe what Stix calls a “serious, unfixable gap” within a mammoth series of papers by Shinichi Mochizuki, a mathematician at Kyoto University who is renowned for his brilliance. Posted online in 2012, Mochizuki’s papers supposedly prove the abc conjecture, one of the most far...

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Hope Rekindled for Perplexing Proof

Kevin Hartnett — Mon, 21 Dec 2015 16:33:45 +0000

Earlier this month the math world turned toward the University of Oxford, looking for signs of progress on a mystery that has gripped the community for three years. The occasion was a conference on the work of Shinichi Mochizuki, a brilliant mathematician at Kyoto University who in August 2012 released four papers that were both difficult to understand and impossible to ignore. He called the work...

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