Understanding The Difficulty Of Japanese Mathematicians Solving ABC Conjecture Puzzles

JAKARTA - Kyoto University, Japan finally acknowledged the success of Shinichi Mochizuki in solving the ABC conjecture puzzle. Moreover, the math problem has never been solved until now.

Launching from Kyodonews, the ABC conjecture puzzle was created by British mathematician David Masser and his colleague Joseph Oesterle in 1935. Broadly speaking, the ABC conjecture is related to the equation a + b = c.

The ABC conjecture puzzle is the most important puzzle in Diophantine analysis, a branch of mathematics that analyzes number systems through polymonial equations. To put it simply, if there are prime numbers divided by a or b several times then the sum must equal the number of prime numbers divided by c only a few times.

For example, to understand ABC conjecture in the addition operation 81 = 64 = 145. Then take three positive integers with different factors and satisfy the equation a + b = c.

The number 3 divides 81 four times. Meanwhile 2 divides 64 by 6 times. However, 145 is the same as 5 x 29. So you will find that the largest prime numbers, 5 and 29, divide 145 only 1 time to get a number that cannot be further divided by itself.

The proof of ABC conjecture is described by Mochizuki in four scientific papers totaling 600 pages. It took four years, for Mochizuki to solve the puzzle of the theory.

It is now eight years since his scientific paper was published on Mochizuki's website under the name Teichmuller Theory, in 2012. The research institute for mathematics at Kyoto University has finally acknowledged the proof of the ABC conjecture theory by the 51-year-old Professor.

There were two other famous mathematicians who tried to solve the ABC conjecture theory. Including mathematicians who try to understand or conclude that Mochizuki's answer is right or wrong.

"There is a serious problem and it is difficult to fix. But he really made a world of his own," said Mathematicians Peter Scholze and Jakob Stix in 2018.

Even so, there are still no other mathematicians who have succeeded in solving the ABC conjecture theory to date. The man who was born in Tokyo, 1969 actually grew up in the United States since he was 5 years old.

At a relatively young age, Mochizuki was accepted at Princton University at the age of 16 and graduated three years later. Mochizuki then returned to Japan and became a teaching assistant at Kyoto University in 1992.

In 2005, Mochizuki was one of the first recipients of the Japanese Academy medal for being a 'young' professor at the age of 45.