After skimming this several times I don't really see any new information apart from the unsupported claim that:<p>> <i>Editors of the journal of RIMS have asked outside experts to peer review the articles for any problems, and a decision could be made to publish them in the widely respected journal as early as January.</i><p>RIMS is Kyoto University's Research Institute for Mathematical Sciences where Shinichi Mochizuki works.<p>This is about his proposed proof of the ABC conjecture. There have been many submissions about this here on HN:<p><a href="https://hn.algolia.com/?query=ABC+conjecture" rel="nofollow">https://hn.algolia.com/?query=ABC+conjecture</a><p>If you want to understand it you could do worse than starting here:<p>> <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4505264" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4505264</a>
This is old. And for some reason people(journalist) seems to beleive the guy is right. When really if nobody comfirm what you say it's most likely because you are wrong.