500 page math 'proof'' nobody understands:

Originally posted by @eladar
But who will believe it?

Those that have faith in person A I suppose.
But that isn't the point I was making.

Originally posted by @sonhouse
http://www.sciencealert.com/nightmarish-500-page-math-proof-even-experts-can-t-understand-about-published-shinichi-mochizuki

This paper has been analysed for years with no consenous.

I wonder if Terence Tao has had a look?

Perhaps it's a proof, perhaps it's not. If nobody understands it, then that certainly doesn't mean it's truly a brilliant proof. It might be one big pile of crap.

Originally posted by @soothfast
Perhaps it's a proof, perhaps it's not. If nobody understands it, then that certainly doesn't mean it's truly a brilliant proof. It might be one big pile of crap.

A 500 page pile of crap in that case. I wonder why math dudes haven't had the originator go over it bit by bit so they can understand? It sounds like he does the paper, takes ten years or whatever, give a single seminar, and ship it to the world and go back to scratching on a blackboard leaving the rest of the math community scratching their heads in frustration.

Originally posted by @soothfast
Perhaps it's a proof, perhaps it's not. If nobody understands it, then that certainly doesn't mean it's truly a brilliant proof. It might be one big pile of crap.

I liked this quote from someone called Voloch referenced in the article linked to in the OP:

"At the afternoon tea break, everybody was confused. I asked many people and nobody had a clue."

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Who was that? I guess you know today is Ramanujan's birthday.

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I in no way accused you of lying. Sometimes a question is just a question because the person issuing it does not know. What would I gain by causing that kind of trouble?

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But what you don't know is how to conduct a civil conversation without continually blowing
your own horn and insulting everyone around you. If there's a troll around here, it's you.

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You have the putrid soul of a harpy and the social skills of a rattlesnake. Thanks for providing the proof.