Aha -- which may indicate that Chang called around and found many experts who do believe the proof. What does Terry Tao's blog say? That would probably have the latest buzz. --Dan On 2012-09-18, at 5:10 PM, Warren Smith 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.