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Mathematician in Kyoto cracks formidable brainteaser

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After skimming this several times I don't really see any new information apart from the unsupported claim that:

Editors of the journal of RIMS have asked outside experts to peer review the articles for any problems, and a decision could be made to publish them in the widely respected journal as early as January.

RIMS is Kyoto University's Research Institute for Mathematical Sciences where Shinichi Mochizuki works.

This is about his proposed proof of the ABC conjecture. There have been many submissions about this here on HN:

https://hn.algolia.com/?query=ABC+conjecture

If you want to understand it you could do worse than starting here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4505264

This is old. And for some reason people(journalist) seems to beleive the guy is right. When really if nobody comfirm what you say it's most likely because you are wrong.

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