Hot, Mon 7:55: Before the 9:45 utter (watch video here together with press "triangle play" inward the lower left corner if paused; schedule; Laureates' server is overloaded), come across this five-page newspaper past times Atiyah. It starts amongst crackpot-style comments on the fine-structure constant but don't halt also early. The 15-line-long proof past times contradiction using his "Todd function" (defined inward another paper, thanks, pis.) is on Page 3. The strategy of halving the imaginary component of the Siegel root is precisely what I predicted on Quora! However, I don't empathize his "Todd function" that is polynomial inward convex sets of the complex bird but non inward general. Can't it move proven that a regionally analytic polynomial business office is polynomial everywhere? Oh, I see, it's only "weakly analytic". I must come across what it agency because he seems to mix existent together with complex analytic functions.Originally posted on Friday Sep 21st morning
In 2012, Šiniči Močizuki claimed to receive got a proof of the \(abc\) conjecture. Now, precisely vi years later, his proof – distributed over 500+ pages of text, non counting some "background" inward additional 500+ pages of text – remains disputed. Some mathematicians claim that it has to move right but they look to move "insufficiently independent" of Močizuki. The really independent ones stay soundless or... negative.
In particular, the Quanta Magazine says that Jakob Stix together with (the young, celebrated, fresh Fields Medal winner) Peter Scholze claim that they receive got isolated an unbridgeable gap inward the Japanese proof. They met amongst Močizuki. The 2 sides couldn't agree. Scholze was only a "cheeky Hun who only barely jumped out of a vagina", Močizuki was a "brownie, gook, together with nip", y'all tin imagine that the exchanges betwixt mathematicians leave of absence along their highest standards of diplomacy.
I retrieve that this disputation is similar to some controversies inward theoretical physics, maybe including the "de Sitter infinite inward string theory" controversy. In principle, it could only mathematics where everything is clear. But it's complex enough, amongst a potential for mistakes together with some room for replacing detailed solutions past times philosophies, together with then that people may destination upward believing inward really dissimilar answers.
But frankly speaking, I don't actually attention nearly the \(abc\) conjecture – together with I receive got never cared. So I wasn't e'er tempted to starting fourth dimension to read the 500 pages.
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I've spent hundreds of hours amongst efforts to attempt out the Riemann Hypothesis. Most of these efforts were basically variations – sometimes e.g. string champaign theory variations – of the Hilbert-Pólya program. In recent years, I changed my heed together with became a Hilbert-Pólya skeptic. The computer program has proposed to attempt out the Riemann Hypothesis past times showing that in that place is a Hermitian operator \(L\) whose eigenvalues are the imaginary parts of the Riemann zeta roots.
I even together with then retrieve that in that place may be extremely natural operators \(L\) amongst this belongings but I no longer retrieve that the being together with Hermiticity of \(L\) straight leads to the proof of the Riemann Hypothesis. Why? Because aside from the normalizable eigenstates, \(L\) may also receive got non-renormalizable "quasinormal modes" amongst eigenvalues away from the existent axis. So the Riemann Hypothesis claim may bring down to the enquiry whether all formal solutions are normalizable, together with this enquiry may move equally difficult equally the master copy Riemann Hypothesis.
Lots of proofs receive got been wrong together with then fifty-fifty if the novel auditorium exists together with Atiyah presents a discuss there, it may move incorrect, too. It's in all probability to a greater extent than probable to move wrong than correct. But it's Atiyah, together with then I won't flame it out of hand. Instead, I excogitation to written report his piece of occupation carefully.
Michael Atiyah is to a greater extent than than 89 years old. Most people are dead past times that historic menstruation – together with almost all the remaining ones are hopelessly senile. But Michael Atiyah is a move past times mind. He has also co-written a paper nearly M-theory amongst Witten which I sort of liked. It's a guy who is around string theory together with I believe that this sort of background is appropriate for the Riemann Hypothesis.
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Update Mon noon: I am almost certain the proof is hopelessly wrong.