It went/goes something like this: "It [the abc conjecture] resembles a false proposition in that A GREAT DEAL of results would follow from its veracity". I may have read it in the comments of a discussion on Mochizuki's papers on IUT sometime in 2012; the thing is that I don't recall if it was ...

... a new post? Is it the question as stated, or the problem that's obvious? ... a response? Is it the question as stated, or the advice as given? I've not really posted in a while, been a few years actually. Therefore I was curious about how the current moderating staff would answer this.

I believe that reading vintage codes or codes or papers where some idea was introduced for the first time will expose the concept in its simplest form and hence will lead to clearer and deeper understanding as it will be free of profuse interspersing of many libraries and framework and hence we c...