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theHigherGeometer
Personal blog · thehighergeometer.wordpress.commathscience
theHigherGeometer is a personal blog at thehighergeometer.wordpress.com about math and science. Since 2019, 8 different Hacker News readers have linked it 12 times, most often “Diophantine Fruit”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-12, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
The comments only link to this math blog's posts, on the emoji problem, Diophantine equations, and Taylor Dupuy's attempt to bridge the gap in Mochizuki's ABC conjecture proof.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- Diophantine Fruit3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2021-07-27
- What even is mathematical output?2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2026-10-12
What Hacker News says?
At least it was a problem with a known solution obtainable by a standard procedure in not too many steps. Could've also picked a deceptively simple Diophantine equation where it is unknown whether it even has any solutions or not: https://thehighergeometer.wordpress.com/2021/07/27/diophanti...
Comment linking /2021/07/27/diophantine-fruit/
on “The emoji problem (2022)”Submitted A new rare high-rank elliptic curve, and an orchard of Diophantine equations as a story · 197 points
HN discussion> It's worse than that. At this point, the person who bridges that gap will almost certainly get his name added to the proof--that's a big incentive. Taylor Dupuy together with Anton Hilado is attempting this: https://thehighergeometer.wordpress.com/2019/01/18/taylor-du...
Comment linking /2019/01/18/taylor-dupuy-on-mochizukis-iutt-infamous-corollary-3-12/
on “Mochizuki's proof of the ABC conjecture accepted for publication”Submitted Diophantine Fruit as a story · 54 points
HN discussionThe whole situation is in my opinion much more complicated. Here are some texts from the internet concerning this: David Michael Roberts - A Crisis of Identification: https://inference-review.com/article/a-crisis-of-identificat... Two Quora posts: https://www.quora.com/Did-Peter-Scholze-and-Jakob-Stix-reall... https://www.quora.com/What-do-you-think-about-Stix-and-Schol... Also relevant: https://thehighergeometer.wo…
Comment linking /2019/01/18/taylor-dupuy-on-mochizukis-iutt-infamous-corollary-3-12/
on “Mochizuki's proof of the ABC conjecture accepted for publication”Submitted What even is mathematical output? as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Believing in Consistency [of Arithmetics] as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Diophantine Fruit as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted What even is mathematical output? as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Taylor Dupuy on Mochizuki’s IUTT Infamous Corollary 3.12 as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted A category satisfying all but the smallness condition from Giraud's theorem as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Will we continue scientific research? as a story · 1 points
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