Related to yesterday's claim of proof of the ABC conjecture[1]. I found this while looking through Mochizuki's wonderful and whimsical website[3] for any hints about how to understand his approach.
In his words..
“IUTeich” lies in the image of a sequence of nested universes. The theta function corresponds to the gaze of the little girl into the “small house”
In his words..
“IUTeich” lies in the image of a sequence of nested universes. The theta function corresponds to the gaze of the little girl into the “small house”
[1] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4476367
[2] http://www.kurims.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~motizuki/top-english.html