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Understanding the famously complex Inter-universal Teichmüller Theory could solve mathematics' greatest problems.

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He has a background in mathematics, having studied graph theory as a doctoral ... The work, if correct, proves the majority of cases of generalized Fermat's Last Theorem, using principles from IUT.