Egregoros

youtubes is suddenly recommending me videos about ABC conjecture. I thought the proof was shown to be incorrect a few months after it was first released - it involves several thick books on a new brach of math (interuniversal techmuller theory? I don’t remember) that one man spent 20 years developing alone, but anyone trying to read it finds a logical error within the first chapter, so the overall consensus is not even “needs more time in the oven” but “your foundations are wrong, what the fuck are we even doing here?”
I remember the author saying “this paper is only for experts, and non experts shouldn’t read it”, but he is literally the only person in the world who even knew about his branch of math.
Apparently one university in Japan maintains that the proof is correct, because he is one of the senior professors there. Also, while he dismisses those who prove him wrong, he got pissed off at the only guy who thinks his theory is correct, just needs minor improvements, in the “how dare you say you understand my math better than I do?” way. Bizarre behavior, but also kinda understandable, considering that he was a math prodigy who wasted his life and has nothing to show for it, aside from one theory which turned out to be basically just nonsense.