This has been going on for 13 years. The difficulty on understanding the Inter-universal Teichmüller theory (valid or not) is it's all based on his Inter-universal geometry framework that only he and a handful of his students understand. So the work can't be peer-reviewed.
He has been offered to travel to work with other high level mathematicians to lecture them about his framework so other people can understand it but he has refused. He rarely travels (if at all) and he's very private, and doesn't even have lunch with his colleagues.
And I would speculate he sometimes disappear of the public eye, as he even has a section on his personal web site to notify he's alive [0].
I haven't asked friends in a couple years, but in math research centers the feelings were 'meh'. That there were probably some interesting things there, but it was going to be impossible to take something out of it unless something changes with Mochizuki or his students.
This has been going on for 13 years. The difficulty on understanding the Inter-universal Teichmüller theory (valid or not) is it's all based on his Inter-universal geometry framework that only he and a handful of his students understand. So the work can't be peer-reviewed.
He has been offered to travel to work with other high level mathematicians to lecture them about his framework so other people can understand it but he has refused. He rarely travels (if at all) and he's very private, and doesn't even have lunch with his colleagues.
And I would speculate he sometimes disappear of the public eye, as he even has a section on his personal web site to notify he's alive [0].
I haven't asked friends in a couple years, but in math research centers the feelings were 'meh'. That there were probably some interesting things there, but it was going to be impossible to take something out of it unless something changes with Mochizuki or his students.
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