A Possible Breakthrough in Explaining a Mathematical Riddle (Published 2012)

Numbers, addition, multiplication — the basic stuff of grade-school arithmetic — are suddenly the excited talk of cutting-edge mathematicians. On Aug. 30, with no fanfare, Shinichi Mochizuki, a mathematician at Kyoto University in Japan, dropped onto the Internet four papers. The papers, encompassing 500 pages and four years of effort, claim to solve an important problem in number theory known as

[Nean]

日本の報道なんかよりよほど詳しそうなことはわかるけれど、アテクシには数学の壁に英語の壁が増えただけだった＼(^o^)／

[yhara]

“At first glance, it feels like you’re reading something from outer space.”