Mathematics
An effort to settle a decade-long argument over a questionable evidence by mathematician Shinichi Mochizuki has actually seen a war of words on both sides, with Mochizuki calling the most recent effort as similar to a “hallucination” produced by ChatGPT
By Alex Wilkins
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Shinichi Mochizuki’s evidence is 500 pages long
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An effort to repair issues with a questionable mathematical evidence has itself end up being bogged down in debate, in the most recent twist in a legend that has actually been running for over a years and has actually seen mathematicians trading abnormally pointed barbs.
The story started in 2012, when Shinichi Mochizuki at Kyoto University, Japan, released a 500-page evidence of an issue called the ABC guesswork. The opinion issues prime numbers associated with services …
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