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Science is about publishing results that others can reproduce and check. Failing to make a theory accessible to the world experts (!) in the field is about as u
by mherrmann 11y ago
Science is about publishing results that others can reproduce and check. Failing to make a theory accessible to the world experts (!) in the field is about as useful as not having the theory at all. Despite what some introvert mathematicians may think, science necessarily involves other humans.
If I were one of the experts I would give it that one week and if nothing interesting comes up stop wasting my time on it.
- Certhas 11y agoThe situation is more complex though. Most people seem to not have gotten anything out of this workshop: https://plus.google.com/106680226131440966362/posts https://plus.google.com/106680226131440966362/posts But Mochizuki was answering questions. And its not like there is absolutely no progress. Quoting from the day 5 summary: > I felt that Dupuy was the one that made the most progress learning the stuff. He told me afterwards that he indeed made progress but is nowhere done yet. He also told me he would take Mochizuki up on his offer and continue to work on understanding the work.
- GFK_of_xmaspast 11y ago"Not giving up after a week" is one of the keys to becoming an expert.