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[mshoji-blog]

A paper by a Kyoto University mathematician that claims to have proven "the abc conjecture," an extremely difficult problem that has baffled mathematicians around the world for years, will be published by a mathematical journal edited by a research institute at the university, the institution announced on April 3.

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The abc conjecture is a proposition that expresses the relationship of factorization in prime numbers with addition and multiplication. It took eight years for the 646-page paper written by Shinichi Mochizuki, a 51-year-old professor at Kyoto University's Research Institute for Mathematical Sciences (RIMS), to be peer reviewed due to its novelty and abstrusity, but his proof is finally being accepted as correct.

The latest achievement is a feat akin to the solving of Fermat's Last Theorem in 1995, and the Poincare conjecture in 2006.

In August 2012, Mochizuki published four papers on Inter-universal Teichmuller (IUT) theory online. He claimed that with the use of this theory, which took at least 10 years since its inception to complete, many difficult problems could be solved, including the abc conjecture. While his claims attracted widespread attention, the concept he put forth was so innovative that it was even called "a paper from the future." In addition, to understand the IUT papers, one must be familiar with Mochizuki's previous work of 1,000-plus pages. It is said that only around a dozen mathematicians in the world have been able to understand the papers.

Through Kyoto University's public relations department, Mochizuki released a comment that it took him around 20 years to complete the proof of the abc conjecture, and also that "the solution to the abc conjecture is not just an important outgrowth of the IUT theory, but it proves that the IUT theory has enough depth to capture the deep nature of integers."

According to Kyoto University, Mochizuki's paper was accepted on Feb. 5 for publication in the journal PRIMS, which is edited by RIMS and issued by the European Mathematical Society. The paper is slated to be published in a special issue of the journal. Mochizuki is editor-in-chief of the journal, but was removed from the review process for his paper, for which a special editorial committee was set up.

Born in March 1969 in Tokyo, Mochizuki moved to the United States at age 5 when his father was transferred there for work. He skipped grades and started studies at Princeton University when he was 16, and then proceeded on to graduate school at age 19. He studied under Gerd Faltings, a winner of the Fields Medal hailed as the "Nobel Prize of the mathematics world."

After Mochizuki completed his Ph.D. at the age of 23, he returned to Japan, where he went from being an assistant at Kyoto University's RIMS, then an assistant professor in 1996, and then a professor at the tender age of 32. His achievements in arithmetic geometry were recognized early on, and he became the first winner of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science Prize set up in fiscal 2004 for researchers under the age of 45.

Fumiharu Kato, a professor of arithmetic geometry at the Tokyo Institute of Technology, who knows Mochizuki -- a man who has stayed away from media exposure -- both professionally and personally, praised his colleague and friend. "The IUT theory (that professor Mochizuki proposed and used to prove the abc conjecture) can be said to be a 'revolution' in the math world. He's accomplished something for which no number of Nobel Prizes could suffice," he said.

(Japanese original by Shuichi Abe, Osaka City News Department, and Koki Matsumoto, Osaka Science & Environment News Department)

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Rise of Weirdness - Part 58

September 16, 2181:

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April 22, 2182:

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June 21, 2182:

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August 22, 2182:

Hamalian Offworlder state declares war against the Sheratan, provoking one of the bloodiest wars in inhabited space, provoking concern about the stability of the interstellar states,...

October 23, 2182:

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March 31, 2183:

Bologna Scandal; Vatican City officials claim that the State of Aphrodite is behind a rash of demonic possessions in Bologna, Italy,...

June 2, 2184:

Circassian Ghost Uprising; Tensions mount across the Caucasus after the ghosts of Circassian ethnic cleansing campaigns,...

April 3, 2185:

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January 26, 2185:

Ramallah Proclamation; Sunni-Shiite clerics vall for a ban on "regional interpretations" of the Muslim faith, fueling civil unrest,...

April 4, 2185:

Ralnar Disaster; Dimensional breach from Tezmet led by Yuxquy Picwip attacking Offworlder nation of Ralnar, showing that the issue of dimensional breaches isn't a purely Earth issue,...

March 5, 2186:

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December 17, 2186:

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July 14, 2187:

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October 10, 2187:

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March 5, 2188:

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September 24, 2189:

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October 31, 2189:

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January 18, 2190:

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August 2, 2190:

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December 16, 2190:

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February 25, 2191:

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March 18, 2191:

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May 13, 2191:

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May 23, 2192:

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May 9, 2193:

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October 24, 2193:

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March 1, 2197:

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June 14, 2198:

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July 14, 2198:

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April 5, 2199:

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July 2, 2200:

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[osamu1909]

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