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>>8381834
you must not be smart enough to see how a smart person utilizes bragging towards success

On the Verification of Inter-universal Teichmuller Theory: A Progress Report (as of December 2014):
http://www.kurims.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~motizuki/IUTeich%20Verification%20Report%202014-12.pdf

>On the other hand, my experiences over the years in educating various students such as Hoshi (cf. the final portion of (4) above, as well as the discussion at the beginning of (6)), as well as of listening to the comments of various researchers who encountered substantial difficulties in their study of IUTeich and related topics, have left the following impression on me: From the point of view of achieving an effective solution to this sort of problem, the most essential stumbling block lies not so much in the need for the acquisition of new knowledge , but rather in the need for researchers (i.e., who encounter substantial difficulties in their study of IUTeich and related topics) to deactivate the thought patterns that they have installed in their brains and taken for granted for so many years and then to start afresh, that is to say, to revert to a mindset that relies only on primitive logical reasoning, in the style of a student or a novice to a subject.

sounds like number theorists are scared to admit they're back at square one when reading these papers