Number theorist fears many proofs widely considered to be true are wrong
Headline is waaaay overblown, but not all of it is total hyperbole -- checkout out arxiv and try to read the abstract from just about any paper.<p>It&#x27;s basically totally impermeable. I&#x27;m almost done with an undergraduate degree in math and basically have no idea what ~90% of the research is about at anything other than a topical level. This is fine, it&#x27;s written for specialists in the field (hopefully), but damn, for most fields, it&#x27;s not a whole lot of people.<p>Compared to physics or chemistry, math gets very specialized, very quickly. Depending on the field, there&#x27;s no easy real world isomorphisms either, making it even more difficult.