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After an eight-year struggle, Shinichi Mochizuki has finally gotten his 600-page proof of the abc conjecture accepted in a peer-reviewed journal. But some experts are still unconvinced.
Photo credit: Kyoto University
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-00998-2
Photo credit: Kyoto University
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-00998-2
I wrote a profile of Mochizuki back in 2015. (He never replied to requests for comments, not even to fact-check details about his biography.)
Illustration by Paddy Mills/Nature
https://www.nature.com/news/the-biggest-mystery-in-mathematics-shinichi-mochizuki-and-the-impenetrable-proof-1.18509
Illustration by Paddy Mills/Nature
https://www.nature.com/news/the-biggest-mystery-in-mathematics-shinichi-mochizuki-and-the-impenetrable-proof-1.18509
I was told that Mochizuki became suspicious of journalists after media coverage of speculation that he was the person behind Satoshi Nakamoto, the anonymous inventor of Bitcoin
After Peter Scholze and Jacob Stix circulated a rebuttal in 2018, many mathematicians considered the issue settled: the proof had a "serious, unfixable gap", as Stix told @EricaKlarreich at the time: https://www.quantamagazine.org/titans-of-mathematics-clash-over-epic-proof-of-abc-conjecture-20180920/
But when asked by @Cyranoski during a press conference in Kyoto today, Akio Tamagawa (a colleague of Mochizuki who handled the papers for the journal) said Mochizuki has not made substantial changes to his papers in response to Scholze and Stix's critique https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-00998-2
