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He did the entire 500-page paper in isolation and refuses to lecture on it in any capacity anywhere other than his own university. He may be right, and he may
by gecko 12y ago
He did the entire 500-page paper in isolation and refuses to lecture on it in any capacity anywhere other than his own university. He may be right, and he may not be, but his failure to get an answer from the community is his fault, not theirs.
- jblow 12y agoMath is supposed to be about pursuit of truth, not how congenial you are.
- lomnakkus 12y agoLike it or not, but math these days is a kind of social activity.
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- pavel_lishin 12y agoMy friends and I occasionally joke that the worse a professor's/programmer's/scientist's personal university webpage, the better they are at their actual profession.
- pekk 12y agoNobody asked you how good he was as a web designer.
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- Goronmon 12y agoIt's really not though. It's basically a sign that he's an academic, and again, not a web developer.
- RBerenguel 12y agoIt's not the worse mathematician homepage I've seen, by a grand margin. Mine is only marginally better, and I have more to blame since I know what I do when I do webpages :)
- Fomite 12y agoSeriously. This doesn't even make my Top 5.
- jackmaney 12y agoWhen I was in academia, I just used Word (and "Export to HTML") to create my university homepage. Even back then, I knew it was ugly as sin, but I had other things to worry about. I still don't have a very good sense of design, but I can use Bootstrap. That's good enough.
- killertypo 12y agodid you look at the source, that was written by a mathematician, he took careful care to calculate out every pixel of padding and space. Probably for his specific monitor :)
- cecilpl 12y agoNah, those values are generated by "JustSystems Homepage Builder Version 15.0.8.0 for Windows"
- pfortuny 12y agoCome on! Maths is about passing on messages, and this is a human endeavor.
- TallGuyShort 12y agoHe's welcome to pursue truth on his own, but if he wants other people to read his proof, it's more about the people than the proof.
- Florin_Andrei 12y agoA message remains true even after encryption, and yet it's unreadable.
- evanb 12y agoBut you can only make sense of it if you have the key... Or already know how to crack the code.
- roberthahn 12y agoMinhyong Kim (cited from the article) makes a good point: that "any journal would probably require independent reviewers who have not studied under Mochizuki to verify the proof." Given that, Mochizuki is stuck between a rock and a hard place - anyone he brings up to speed automatically becomes disqualified to independently review his work. I'm not so sure this is entirely his fault. EDIT: tpyo
- gecko 12y agoWhile you're correct, part of the fix for that is not to publish a 500-page paper in isolation. You instead publish the underlying concepts piecemeal in "easy"-to-understand chunks (for this insane level of "easy", hence the quotes). This works the same as how good practice when writing code is not to drop a 50 ksloc commit, but rather to do a series of patches showing how you arrived at a given solution.