Unfortunately for Mochizuki he's over 40, which is the hard cutoff for Fields Medals (just ask Andrew Wiles). Victor On Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 8:10 PM, Warren Smith <warren.wds@gmail.com> wrote:
If this is true, then definitely Mochizuki deserves the Fields Medal, the works. I have no evidence it is true, though. His "inter-universal" work is far outside MY universe, I pretty much can't understand a word. And I doubt many number theorists can either. It doesn't look like number theory normally looks.
So I actually had sent a little tip to the NY Times science section saying "possible big story re ABC." Then I actually got a reply, basically saying "Nah, we at the NY Times will be highly interested in ABC, so thanks for the tip, *but* only when proof is confirmed, we don't report on maybe-proofs, we're not that kind of low-class paper." But, lo and behold, in today's science section there is a story on ABC by K.Chang.
-- Warren D. Smith
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