Wikipedia – The abc conjecture (also known as Oesterlé–Masser conjecture) is a conjecture in number theory, first proposed by Joseph Oesterlé (1988) and David Masser (1985) as an integer analogue of ...

It may contain inaccuracies due to the limitations of machine translation. At a press conference on April 3, Japan's Kyoto University announced that a paper by Professor Shinichi Mochizuki (望月新一·51) ...

(Phys.org)—In all of history there are very few names that stand out in the field of mathematics, at least among those not in the field: Euclid, Newton, Pythagoras, etc. This is likely due to several ...

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 ...

In August 2012, Shinichi Mochizuki, Japanese mathematician from Kyoto University’s Research Institute for Mathematical Sciences, posted four papers on his website that claimed to contain a proof of ...

A new proof about prime numbers illuminates the subtle relationship between addition and multiplication — and raises hopes for progress on the famous abc conjecture. Two mathematicians have found what ...