„The effort to unpick Mochisuki’s work, the product of 20 years of solitary struggle, was not helped by his reluctance to leave Japan to explain his findings. […] But now acceptance of Mochizuki’s breakthrough […] has come a significant step further after a fresh meeting in his home city of Kyoto last month led to at least four mathematicians declaring they now understand the work in detail.”
Rarely can the phrase „easy as ABC” have been more wrong. Some four years after a Japanese mathematician unveiled a 500-page solution to one of his field’s knottiest problems „“ known as the ABC conjecture „“ a group of peers have announced the groundbreaking development that they are finally beginnin…
Sursa: Revolutionary mathematical theory moves a step closer
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