Sentences with phrase «abc conjecture»

Mochizuki's theorem aims to prove the important abc conjecture, which dates back to 1985 and relates to prime numbers — whole numbers that can not be evenly divided by any smaller number except by 1.

«When you work in number theory, you can not ignore the abc conjecture,» he says.

For the time being, the ABC conjecture is likely to remain in limbo, as no journal has been willing to publish it — the final stamp of approval for a proof.

In 2012, Shinichi Mochizuki at Kyoto University in Japan produced a proof of a long standing problem called the ABC conjecture, but no one could understand it.

The ABC conjecture was first proposed in the 1980s and concerns a fundamental property of numbers, based around the simple equation a + b = c. For a long time, mathematicians believe that the conjecture was true, but nobody had ever been able to prove it.

Silver Award: Marlene Weiss Sueddeutsche Zeitung ─ Munich, Germany «Das grosse ABC» Aug. 31, 2016 Translation in English For more than 10 years, Japanese mathematician Shinichi Mochizuki worked largely by himself on a proof of the so - called ABC conjecture, one of the most important unresolved problems in mathematics.

Mathematicians have struggled to understand a 500 - page - long proof of the ABC conjecture for half a decade.

The result is a fiendishly complicated proof for the decades - old «ABC conjecture» — and an alternative mathematical universe that should prise open many other outstanding enigmas.

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If true, a solution to the «abc» conjecture about whole numbers would be «one of the most astounding achievements of mathematics of the 21st century»