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After a saga eight years in the making, a mathematician is finally set to formally publish a proof that rocked number theory and baffled almost everyone who read it – including other mathematicians.

Despite multiple conferences dedicated to explicating Mochizuki’s proof, number theorists have struggled to come to grips with its underlying ideas. His series of papers, which total more than 500 ...