Yeah. But you've got to be careful; lots of people dismissed Louis de Branges' claim to have proved the Bieberbach conjecture because he also had a long history

Yeah. But you've got to be careful; lots of people dismissed Louis de Branges' claim to have proved the Bieberbach conjecture because he also had a long history of self-promotion (and, indeed, of claiming to have proved things when his proofs really had holes). But he really did prove the Bieberbach conjecture. Then again, he also keeps claiming to have proved the Riemann hypothesis and no one believes him :-).