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A more notorious example of the comprehension crisis would be Mochizuki's claimed proof of the abc conjecture. So far fairly few people are willing to claim the
by contravariant 5y ago
A more notorious example of the comprehension crisis would be Mochizuki's claimed proof of the abc conjecture. So far fairly few people are willing to claim they both understand and agree with the several hundred pages of 'proof'.
- exdsq 5y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shinichi_Mochizuki https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shinichi_Mochizuki It's a fun rabbit hole to go down :)
- zitterbewegung 5y agoI was tempted to use that but Fermat's last theorem is known to the general public for much longer and has a resolution.
- contravariant 5y agoIt was a good example, and definitely one of the more important examples of how finding and fixing mistakes in mathematics is supposed to happen. I figured the abc-conjecture would provide a nice contrasting example.