Math Proofs & Fame

"Math is running out of problems you can get famous for solving" FTFY.

"One weird trick that made pure mathematicians hate him"

Math is objective. The proof is either correct or not. Human interaction doesn't matter, except for perhaps marketing the importance of the results. In this case, the history of the problem itself has done the marketing, so any valid solution would be a wild success regardless of how socially eccentric the researcher is. Another recent example of such a mathematician is Grigori Perelman.

It still happens from time to time Claude found me this examples :https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hua_Luogenghttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AKS_primality_testhttps:

The article cites Erdős, saying "Mathematics may not be ready for such problems"

I really like knowing that there are people dedicated to thinking deep thoughts. There was a recent potential proof published on a tough math problem, and apparently the author had gone dark for 15 years creating a fantastic mathematical universe and vocabulary all on his own. Thats worthwhile. Maybe not for everyone to go off doing it, but definitely for some.

"A mathematician's fame is proportional to the number of incorrect proofs they have published."

"A mathematician is a device for turning meth into theorems." ~ Paul Erdős

That's pretty incredible, thanks for sharing. Hard to believe decades of mathematical research collapsed on itself.

This article seems to suggets that mathematicians are all too eager to drop his work at the slightest whiff of any flaw. Could someone more knowledgable on the subject explain to me why this is?It is clear that he has already done some very great things in mathematics, so even if there was a flaw in his proof, I would think his papers would still have many deep insights that no else had thought of. I mean, it's not like mathematicians are pressed for time -- if I was one I would certainly d