can you sum up this article in a paragraph that makes sense to someone without a 180 IQ?
If you prove the abc conjecture, it enables you to solve a bunch of other number theory problems, because abc implies that these other problems have a finite number of possible cases, and you can brute force it from there.
But this guy’s methods are so unfamiliar to other mathematicians, they can’t follow the reasoning he used to prove abc.
Jap math nerd might have solved a really hard problem, or maybe not.
“...can you sum up this article in a paragraph that makes sense to someone without a 180 IQ?”
Yes, I second that request.
“can you sum up this article in a paragraph that makes sense to someone without a 180 IQ?”
Generally I wait for a real math guy to summarize it for me. I am very much an interloper in their club.
I am not familiar with the problem this man claims to have solved so I can can’t really provide a lot of detail but it is interesting to see the arguments over his work. I enjoy reading this type of stuff and struggling with the concepts. Math is weird in that when you go from basic arithmetic into algebra it gets harder but the higher types sort of get easier - at least in concepts.
That said try these for an introduction to the interesting history of the problems dealt with in higher math
“Fermat’s Last Theorem”
http://tinyurl.com/pzploae
The Professor and the Housekeeper
http://tinyurl.com/ot26jdc
The second book, despite its rather risque sounding title is especially suitable for kids that are struggling with mathematical concepts. It has no sex, violence or foul language.