{"id":12429,"date":"2021-07-30T15:25:45","date_gmt":"2021-07-30T19:25:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/?p=12429"},"modified":"2022-04-09T05:58:25","modified_gmt":"2022-04-09T09:58:25","slug":"some-math-items","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/?p=12429","title":{"rendered":"Some Math Items"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some math items that may be of interest:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Zentralblatt Math has a <a href=\"https:\/\/zbmath.org\/pdf\/07317908.pdf\">review of Mochizuki&#8217;s IUT papers, by Peter Scholze<\/a>. Scholze explains the problem with the proof claimed in these papers. For more details, see his <a href=\"https:\/\/ncatlab.org\/nlab\/files\/why_abc_is_still_a_conjecture.pdf\">manuscript with Stix<\/a>, or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/szpirostillaconjecture.pdf\">this discussion<\/a> hosted last year on this blog.<\/li>\n<li>The Bulletin of the AMS will be running a special issue on the work of Michael Atiyah. Available already are two wonderful articles: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ams.org\/journals\/bull\/0000-000-00\/S0273-0979-2021-01746-0\/S0273-0979-2021-01746-0.pdf\">Michael Atiyah&#8217;s work in algebraic topology<\/a>, by Graeme Segal, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ams.org\/journals\/bull\/0000-000-00\/S0273-0979-2021-01747-2\/S0273-0979-2021-01747-2.pdf\">The Atiyah-Singer index theorem<\/a>, by Dan Freed.<\/li>\n<li>For a talk by Helmut Hofer about Andreas Floer and his work, together with contributions from others who knew Floer, see <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ias.edu\/video\/floer-jungle-35-years-floer-theory\">The Floer Jungle: 35 years of Floer theory<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>The latest AMS Notices has a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ams.org\/journals\/notices\/202107\/rnoti-p1156.pdf\">memorial tribute to Steve Zucker<\/a>, with a detailed discussion of his career and mathematical work. His collaborator David Cox explains that the origin of their collaboration was exactly what everyone has always suspected.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Update<\/strong>: The Scholze review has been removed (temporarily?). A cached version is <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20210730194853\/https:\/\/zbmath.org\/pdf\/07317908.pdf\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Update<\/strong>: The review was temporarily removed just because what was posted wasn&#8217;t a finalized version, this is explained <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/zbMATH\/status\/1421486028150517772\">here<\/a>. They should repost once Scholze has a chance to make any final edits.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Update<\/strong>: The review is back up.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Update:<\/strong>  Michael Harris has a <a href=\"https:\/\/siliconreckoner.substack.com\/\">new substack site<\/a>, where he&#8217;ll be writing about the mechanization of mathematics.  I&#8217;m glad to see someone doing this from his point of view.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some math items that may be of interest: Zentralblatt Math has a review of Mochizuki&#8217;s IUT papers, by Peter Scholze. Scholze explains the problem with the proof claimed in these papers. For more details, see his manuscript with Stix, or &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/?p=12429\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12429","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-abc-conjecture","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12429","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12429"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12429\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12444,"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12429\/revisions\/12444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}