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Persiflage
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Persiflage is a personal blog at galoisrepresentations.wordpress.com about math. Since 2014, 11 different Hacker News readers have linked it 12 times, most often “The ABC conjecture has still not been proved”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-29, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (6) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Posts on the ABC conjecture and Mochizuki's proof. HN commenters link them for the remarks in the comments section, where Peter Scholze and Terry Tao's views are quoted in support of their points.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 6 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- The ABC conjecture has still not been proved4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2017-12-20
- /2017/12/17/the-abc-conjecture-has-still-not-been-proved/2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2018-09-20
What Hacker News says?
This is where Terry Tao's comment from December seems relevant: https://galoisrepresentations.wordpress.com/2017/12/17/the-a...
Comment linking /2017/12/17/the-abc-conjecture-has-still-not-been-proved/
on “Titans of Mathematics Clash Over Epic Proof of ABC Conjecture”Submitted The ABC conjecture has still not been proved as a story · 148 points
HN discussionScholze wrote it right there: https://galoisrepresentations.wordpress.com/2017/12/17/the-a...
Comment linking /2017/12/17/the-abc-conjecture-has-still-not-been-proved/
on “Titans of Mathematics Clash Over Epic Proof of ABC Conjecture”Submitted The Ramanujan Machine is an intellectual fraud as a story · 4 points
HN discussionPer Peter Scholze (from https://galoisrepresentations.wordpress.com/2017/12/17/the-a... ): >One final point: I get very annoyed by all references to computer-verification (that came up not on this blog, but elsewhere on the internet in discussions of Mochizuki’s work). The computer will not be able to make sense of this step either. The comparison to the Kepler conjecture, say, is entirely misguided: In that case, t…
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on “Titans of Mathematics Clash Over Epic Proof of ABC Conjecture”Submitted The ABC conjecture has (still) not been proved as a story · 2 points
HN discussionhttps://galoisrepresentations.wordpress.com/2017/12/17/the-a... Terence Tao and Peter Scholze (and others) join the discussion in the comments section.
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on “Titans of Mathematics Clash Over Epic Proof of ABC Conjecture”Submitted Harris versus Buzzard (2019) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionGood article; strikes a nice balance between a loving ode to a grandfather, and exploring how science is much more conservative than one might think. Reminds me of this article [0], and specifically this passage, which makes the point that one metric of judging “crackpot ideas” that seem to come out of nowhere is by what they enable. Do they lead to the emergence of new results, or allow for the proof of things othe…
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on “My Grandfather Thought He Solved a Cosmic Mystery”Submitted Math and Genius as a story · 1 points
HN discussionTerry Tao's comment in the comments section is particularly worth pointing out, I think: > I do not have the expertise to have an informed first-hand opinion on Mochizuki’s work, but on comparing this story with the work of Perelman and Yitang Zhang you mentioned that I am much more familiar with, one striking difference to me has been the presence of short “proof of concept” statements in the latter but not in the…
Comment linking /2017/12/17/the-abc-conjecture-has-still-not-been-proved/
on “The ABC conjecture has still not been proved”You've linked to the top level of this blog, which means that when there's a new post, this submission will point to something completely different. The actual permalink is here: https://galoisrepresentations.wordpress.com/2017/12/17/the-a... That was, in fact, submitted a bit over an hour ago[0], but has had neither upvotes nor comments. [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15971802
Comment linking /2017/12/17/the-abc-conjecture-has-still-not-been-proved/
on “The ABC conjecture has (still) not been proved”
