Is the ABC Conjecture Solved? New Proof Claims Deep Connection to Prime Numbers

[Dragonfall]

http://www.scientificamerican.com/a...med-for-deep-connection-between-prime-numbers

 

[phospho]

More related links if anyone is interested: http://mathoverflow.net/questions/1...ochizuki-pursued-when-trying-to-prove-the-abc

http://quomodocumque.wordpress.com/2012/09/03/mochizuki-on-abc/

 

[SteveL27]

More related links if anyone is interested: http://mathoverflow.net/questions/1...ochizuki-pursued-when-trying-to-prove-the-abc

http://quomodocumque.wordpress.com/2012/09/03/mochizuki-on-abc/

That's a great MO thread. It's amazing what the pros do.

What tiny little I gather is that Mochizuki has been working for years on some kind of new "next level up" kind of abstraction that nobody understands. And people know he's not a crank because he has been producing important results as he goes. But now that he's announced a solution to this really important problem, the rest of the number theorists have to not only read his 500 page paper; but they also have to come up to speed on the strange and revolutionary math he's been creating over the past decade.

That sounds really wild to me.