Claimed Proof of ABC Conjecture in Number Theory

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I'm sorry if this has been posted already, but here's the article.

I don't know much about number theory, but it seems like many of the biggest problems in number theory are quite simple to state, like this one, even a school child could understand it.

The conjecture has also been described as a sort of grand unified theory of whole numbers, in that the proofs of many other important theorems follow immediately from it. For example, Fermat's famous Last Theorem (which states that an+bn=cn has no integer solutions if n>2) follows as a direct consequence of the ABC conjecture.

Sounds like some really exciting stuff.

Another article.
http://www.maa.org/mathland/mathtrek_12_8.html

 

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Unfortunately almost nobody understands what Mochizuki has written and he is not very cooperative in explaining it. AFAIK there are currently some workgroups trying to decode his proof.