Nearly four years after Shinichi Mochizuki unveiled an imposing set of papers that could revolutionize the theory of numbers, other mathematicians have yet to understand his work or agree on its ...

Despite multiple conferences dedicated to explicating Mochizuki’s proof, number theorists have struggled to come to grips with its underlying ideas. His series of papers, which total more than 500 ...

KHQ - A Japanese mathematician, Shinichi Mochizuki says he's solved the world's hardest math problems, the only problem is no one else can understand the problem enough to even be able to check and ...

The latest efforts to comprehend a mammoth mathematical proof have ended in failure and confusion. More than three years after it was released, the mathematician behind it is no closer to having his ...

At a press conference on April 3, Japan's Kyoto University announced that a paper by Professor Shinichi Mochizuki (望月新一·51) of the Research Institute for Mathematical Sciences proving the longstanding ...

(Phys.org)—A group of mathematicians specializing in arithmetic geometry met for five days earlier this month in an attempt to understand a proof constructed by Shinichi Mochizuki, of Kyoto University ...

It has taken nearly four years, but mathematicians are finally starting to comprehend a mammoth proof that could revolutionise our understanding of the deep nature of numbers. Mathematicians were ...

A Japanese mathematician claims to have the proof for the ABC conjecture, a statement about the relationship between prime numbers that has been called the most important unsolved problem in number ...

After an eight-year struggle, embattled Japanese mathematician Shinichi Mochizuki has finally received some validation. His 600-page proof of the abc conjecture, one of the biggest open problems in ...

Tech pioneer Ted Nelson has a theory on the identity of bitcoin creator Satoshi Nakamoto, but it's different than many common speculations. (Photo by James Paterson/N-Photo Magazine/Future via Getty ...

Mathematicians from Yorkshire University, the University of Cambridge, the University of Waterloo and the University of Arkansas have one-upped themselves by finding a close relative of "the hat," a ...