Shin Mochizuki has released his long-rumored proof of the ABC conjecture

Re:Shin Mochizuki has released his long-rumored proof of the... by ktizo on Wednesday September 05, 2012 @02:38AM (#4478272)

By the same standard you wouldn't pay much attention to Freeman Dyson - http://www.sns.ias.edu/~dyson/ - or John Nash - http://web.math.princeton.edu/jfnj/ - either.

I have noticed that many of the best academics seem to like having horrendously appalling websites that look like they were built for NCSA Mosaic. I suspect that there is an in-joke I am missing. They probably have a contest to see who can construct the worst one.

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Re:Shin Mochizuki has released his long-rumored proof of the... by toomuchcoffee on Wednesday September 05, 2012 @10:33PM (#4482597)

I actually like the austere minimalism of JFN's page; it practically exudes sprezzatura, we might say.

Reminds me of some of his early papers, in that sense.

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Re:Shin Mochizuki has released his long-rumored proof of the... by ktizo on Thursday September 06, 2012 @12:21AM (#4482835)

Just looked up "sprezzatura". Is a really cool word, thanks for that. :)

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