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by dsacco 3274 days ago
Using that philosophy, we have to be cautious about whether or not the Riemann hypothesis has been solved every time someone uploads a paper claiming a proof to arXiv, even if it's nonsensical (which this "proof" is), just because we haven't had a team of mathematicians peer review it.

Let me assure you: there is nothing novel here. There is no vulnerability. You want to start from a place of skepticism with these things, not a place of, "Well we don't have enough information to say it's not true..."