tl;dr Not crackpot, not proven, interesting math. There's a discussion on Google+ started by John Baez, which includes a comment by Gowers: https://plus.google.

tl;dr Not crackpot, not proven, interesting math. There's a discussion on Google+ started by John Baez, which includes a comment by Gowers: https://plus.google.com/+johncbaez999/posts/hGshTfdimpZ https://plus.google.com/+johncbaez999/posts/hGshTfdimpZ There's some interesting ideas in the paper, the researcher has done good work in this area before.