Decade-long struggle over maths proof could be decided by $1m prize

A prize of $1 million is being supplied to anybody who can both show or disprove an impenetrable mathematical principle, the veracity of which has been debated for over a decade.

Inter-universal Teichmüller principle (IUT) was created by Shinichi Mochizuki at Kyoto University, Japan, in a bid to resolve a long-standing drawback referred to as the ABC conjecture, which focuses on the easy equation a + b = c. It means that if a and b are made up of enormous powers of …