[z7]

> The incredible Yitan Zhang (https://newyorker.com/magazine/2015/02/02/pursuit-beauty) worked on proving this conjecture for 7 years. Moh, his advisor, wrote that Zhang "failed miserably" in proving the Jacobian conjecture, "never published any paper on algebraic geometry" after leaving Purdue, and "wasted seven years of his own life and my time".

https://x.com/aminkarbasi/status/2079129649830137989

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yitang_Zhang

[Redoubts]

Zhang, Yitang’s life at Purdue (Jan 1985-1991) T.T.Moh - https://www.math.purdue.edu/~ttm/ZhangYt.pdf

kind of a wild document to exist...

[cm2012]

This doc is insane.

Moh repeatedly:

calls Zhang’s words “fake” and his claim “a lie”;

speculates, without demonstrating it, that Zhang “fooled” professors to get admitted;

says Zhang “failed miserably” and “wasted seven years of his own life and my time”;

alleges that Zhang “wanted to be famous all the time”;

publishes an irrelevant and humiliating story about Zhang not attending his father’s funeral;

says he would not touch Zhang “with a five feet pole”;

repeatedly emphasizes his own generosity, influence, mathematical work and supposed sacrifices.

[WhitneyLand]

The world doesn’t need advisors like Moh that are bitter enough to gossip about a family funeral.

[kjshsh123]

He's not dead, but it is bad to gossip regardless.

[zamadatix]

They are referring to Moh's gossip about Zhang's father's funeral in the above (and Zhang's father is very much dead, unfortunately).

[TimorousBestie]

The document says more about the kind of advisor Moh was than the kind of mathematician Zhang is.

[cma]

Interestingly: "For logic proof, it had been thought that AI could handle all logic problems in the near future, hence logic problems of solving conjectures might not be so interesting in the future."