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Re:Shin Mochizuki has released his long-rumored proof of the... by nicholassmith on Tuesday September 04, 2012 @05:09PM (#4476554)
I've just looked at this and my face melted, so could someone say why this is important? It certainly looks impressive but it's gone over my head some what.
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Re:Shin Mochizuki has released his long-rumored proof of the... by aaronbrethorst on Tuesday September 04, 2012 @05:24PM (#4476620)
Wikipedia has somewhat intelligible (to me) information on the topic: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abc_conjecture#Some_consequence...
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Re:Shin Mochizuki has released his long-rumored proof of the... by TallboyOne on Wednesday September 05, 2012 @12:20AM (#4477966)
I still don't particularly understand. So basically this really helps out number theory? Where does that lead to?
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