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A more notorious example of the comprehension crisis would be Mochizuki's claimed proof of the abc conjecture. So far fairly few people are willing to claim they both understand and agree with the several hundred pages of 'proof'.



I was tempted to use that but Fermat's last theorem is known to the general public for much longer and has a resolution.


It was a good example, and definitely one of the more important examples of how finding and fixing mistakes in mathematics is supposed to happen. I figured the abc-conjecture would provide a nice contrasting example.


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shinichi_Mochizuki

It's a fun rabbit hole to go down :)




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