Published on: 2025-06-09 05:27:21
A 500-page proof that only a handful of people in the world claim to understand kicked off a saga unlike anything else in the history of mathematics – and now there’s a new twist to the story, says Jacob Aron A baffling proof of the ABC conjecture set off a bitter divide among mathematicians AndreasG/Shutterstock As a science journalist, there are some stories that you return to again and again. There is climate change, of course – the biggest story of our time. Then there are the big question
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