CharonY Posted March 9, 2016 Share Posted March 9, 2016 A while back I read that Mochizuki may have solved the abc conjecture but apparently the proof was so complicated that it was challenging for mathematicians to actually understand it. It is probably a bit of a long shot, but has anyone heard more about it from a professional side (i.e. from the actual community rather than blogs)? As a whole I found the whole issue quite an interesting in context of both, cutting edge science and science communication. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Strange Posted March 9, 2016 Share Posted March 9, 2016 I know there is a mathematics community online that does a sort of crowd-source approach to developing theorems and proofs. I think I read that one of their projects is to look at Mochizuki's proof. But that is is going (very) slowly. Sorry, that's all I remember ... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wtf Posted March 9, 2016 Share Posted March 9, 2016 (edited) There was a conference in December. Results were somewhat disappointing. Nobody understands the proof but some progress is being made. http://www.nature.com/news/biggest-mystery-in-mathematics-in-limbo-after-cryptic-meeting-1.19035 http://www.math.columbia.edu/~woit/wordpress/?p=8160 http://mathbabe.org/2015/12/15/notes-on-the-oxford-iut-workshop-by-brian-conrad/ https://www.maths.nottingham.ac.uk/personal/ibf/files/symcor.iut.html Edited March 9, 2016 by wtf Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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