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Frank Calegari

Shortly after Faltings announced his proof of Tate’s isogeny conjecture and the Mordell conjecture, he lectured on it at the Arbeitstagung, explaining the new tools he had introduced. Everyone in the audience who had thought about the problem was immediately convinced. Instead of producing 300+ pages of manuscript, Mochizuki needs to give one or two lectures ([not in Japan:] in Bonn, or Paris, or Boston, or..) clearly explaining the new ideas in his argument and showing how they lead to a proof of ABC. This shouldn’t be difficult — I have no idea why he refuses to do so.

—Dick Gross

(NB: Calegari’s claim that years of work are never required to understand a decade of someone else’s thoughts, like every time a mathematician invokes the phrase “all of science”, are obviously wrong.

Nevertheless this is a vastly more valuable comment from an insider about the culture of mathematics and number theory than normal people could read in a newspaper. Given the way suppositions about what mathematics is like influence the way children are treated in the real world, it’s worth passing around insider comments that clarify what mathematics is and how it works—it’s quite more informative than the NYT reporting about Yitang Zhang or Terence Tao, or much worse, Stephen Hawking Versus Philosophers: yawn, and wrong. Nothing about us without us. Notice the focus on communication between known individuals: you would see the same stuff in “The Fortuitous Arrival of Heegner Points” (which Dick Gross was part of). And if you wander into a mathematician’s office wanting to talk about stuff, you will probably get the same response personaly: who are you, what have you been working on, what is your style, what have you done before?

how do you feel about him walking away................

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IHES : the temple for mathematicians

IHES, the temple for mathematicians

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