Despite multiple conferences dedicated to explicating Mochizuki’s proof, number theorists have struggled to come to grips with its underlying ideas. His series of papers, which total more than 500 ...

Wikipedia – The abc conjecture (also known as Oesterlé–Masser conjecture) is a conjecture in number theory, first proposed by Joseph Oesterlé (1988) and David Masser (1985) as an integer analogue of ...

At a press conference on April 3, Japan's Kyoto University announced that a paper by Professor Shinichi Mochizuki (望月新一·51) of the Research Institute for Mathematical Sciences proving the longstanding ...

Three years ago, a solitary mathematician released an impenetrable proof of the famous abc conjecture. At a recent conference dedicated to the work, optimism mixed with bafflement. Earlier this month ...

It is a mathematical epic five years in the making. In 2012, Shinichi Mochizuki at Kyoto University in Japan produced a proof of a long standing problem called the ABC conjecture, but no one could ...

On Aug. 30, a Japanese mathematician named Shinichi Mochizuki posted four papers to his faculty website at Kyoto University. Rumors had been spreading all summer that Mochizuki was onto something big, ...

Whenever a major leap is made in pure mathematics, the question always leads to "Cool, but what does this mean for me?" Here's what you want to know. Shinichi Mochizuki is a number theorist at Kyoto ...

After a saga eight years in the making, a mathematician is finally set to formally publish a proof that rocked number theory and baffled almost everyone who read it – including other mathematicians.

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Whenever a major leap is made in pure mathematics, the question always leads to "Cool, but what does this mean for me?" Here's what you want to know. Shinichi Mochizuki is a number theorist at Kyoto ...