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> The incredible Yitan Zhang (https://newyorker.com/magazine/2015/02/02/pursuit-beauty https://newyorker.com/magazine/2015/02/02/pursuit-beauty) worked on provi

by z7 3mo ago

> The incredible Yitan Zhang (https://newyorker.com/magazine/2015/02/02/pursuit-beauty https://newyorker.com/magazine/2015/02/02/pursuit-beauty) worked on proving this conjecture for 7 years. Moh, his advisor, wrote that Zhang "failed miserably" in proving the Jacobian conjecture, "never published any paper on algebraic geometry" after leaving Purdue, and "wasted seven years of his own life and my time". https://x.com/aminkarbasi/status/2079129649830137989 https://x.com/aminkarbasi/status/2079129649830137989 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yitang_Zhang https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yitang_Zhang

Redoubts 3mo ago
Zhang, Yitang’s life at Purdue (Jan 1985-1991) T.T.Moh - https://www.math.purdue.edu/~ttm/ZhangYt.pdf https://www.math.purdue.edu/~ttm/ZhangYt.pdf kind of a wild document to exist...
- cma 3mo ago
  Interestingly: "For logic proof, it had been thought that AI could handle all logic problems in the near future, hence logic problems of solving conjectures might not be so interesting in the future."
- TimorousBestie 3mo ago
  The document says more about the kind of advisor Moh was than the kind of mathematician Zhang is.
- WhitneyLand 3mo ago
  The world doesn’t need advisors like Moh that are bitter enough to gossip about a family funeral.
  - kjshsh123 3mo ago
    He's not dead, but it is bad to gossip regardless.
    - zamadatix 3mo ago
      They are referring to Moh's gossip about Zhang's father's funeral in the above (and Zhang's father is very much dead, unfortunately).
- cm2012 3mo ago
  This doc is insane. Moh repeatedly: calls Zhang’s words “fake” and his claim “a lie”; speculates, without demonstrating it, that Zhang “fooled” professors to get admitted; says Zhang “failed miserably” and “wasted seven years of his own life and my time”; alleges that Zhang “wanted to be famous all the time”; publishes an irrelevant and humiliating story about Zhang not attending his father’s funeral; says he would not touch Zhang “with a five feet pole”; repeatedly emphasizes his own generosity, influence, mathematical work and supposed sacrifices.
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Redoubts 3mo ago

Zhang, Yitang’s life at Purdue (Jan 1985-1991) T.T.Moh - https://www.math.purdue.edu/~ttm/ZhangYt.pdf https://www.math.purdue.edu/~ttm/ZhangYt.pdf kind of a wild document to exist...

cma 3mo ago
Interestingly: "For logic proof, it had been thought that AI could handle all logic problems in the near future, hence logic problems of solving conjectures might not be so interesting in the future."
TimorousBestie 3mo ago
The document says more about the kind of advisor Moh was than the kind of mathematician Zhang is.
WhitneyLand 3mo ago
The world doesn’t need advisors like Moh that are bitter enough to gossip about a family funeral.
- kjshsh123 3mo ago
  He's not dead, but it is bad to gossip regardless.
  - zamadatix 3mo ago
    They are referring to Moh's gossip about Zhang's father's funeral in the above (and Zhang's father is very much dead, unfortunately).
cm2012 3mo ago
This doc is insane. Moh repeatedly: calls Zhang’s words “fake” and his claim “a lie”; speculates, without demonstrating it, that Zhang “fooled” professors to get admitted; says Zhang “failed miserably” and “wasted seven years of his own life and my time”; alleges that Zhang “wanted to be famous all the time”; publishes an irrelevant and humiliating story about Zhang not attending his father’s funeral; says he would not touch Zhang “with a five feet pole”; repeatedly emphasizes his own generosity, influence, mathematical work and supposed sacrifices.

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