Maybe there isn’t a math replication crisis, but there is a kind of math fragmentation crisis. Sub-fields of mathematics have gotten so deep that specialists ca

Maybe there isn’t a math replication crisis, but there is a kind of math fragmentation crisis. Sub-fields of mathematics have gotten so deep that specialists can’t communicate with one another [0]. I’ve heard this expressed by other mathematicians as having only 2 or 3 other people in the world that they can discuss their work with. The level of solitary study necessary to make progress is another sign of this phenomenon. Andrew Wiles famously spent six years alone in his attic to come up with his proofs for Fermat’s Last Theorem. [0] https://sites.math.rutgers.edu/~zeilberg/Opinion104.html https://sites.math.rutgers.edu/~zeilberg/Opinion104.html