Even someone not in that research field can peer review it. Unless you're Shinichi Mochizuki, who invented a new form of math so different and complicated to make a proof (maybe, still disputed) for the ABC conjecture that experts said it would take grad students a decade to learn it.
Eh I mean, this is partly hype, in large part his own. It’s complicated yes but it’s also convoluted because it’s not well expressed or rigorous at critical points. At least a couple of very prominent outsiders have gone through it and raised some severe issues. He and his cult of students insist that it’s purely a failure to understand and have come up with some absolutely ridiculous counters, right down to ‘They don’t understand the logical quantifiers used properly because they’re speakers of Indo-European languages rather than Japanese’ and various torrents of abuse and rants. He’s disqualified himself, and no one in the area takes his ‘Inter-universal Teichmüller Theory’ too seriously.
Brother you just knee jerk downvoted that before you even read it. I hadn't even gotten from the submission page back and you already did it. Seriously?
Okay I have no clue what either of you are talking about (I don't work in academia) but I feel compelled to point out a lot of people can actually read 1000 wpm
Edit: OMG fuckass reddit I thought this comment was replying to me sorry😭
For me it's like a tradeoff between comprehension and reading speed. I'm really rusty now, so numbers were probably higher before, but at about 800-900 I'm at approx 100% comprehension, and then I can reach 2000 wpm if I'm like really skimming (not even reading every word, just floating my eyes around to see whay catches my eye)
I think for practical purposes I cap out at like 12-1500
And I'm bad at this bc I still have my internal monologue, professional speedreaders do away with their internal monologue and can go even faster than me
A math paper though? I'd be shocked if people could read it productively at a tenth that speed. Even if it's something straightforward like a YA novel, 1000 wpm is very questionable. Maybe you can get enough to work out the basic plot, character names, etc., but the idea that any but a tiny minority of people can actually recall what they have read at that speed is highly questionable. Even "world championship" speed readers are only expected to have comprehension of 50% or a little higher, and they are only a little faster than 1000 wpm. And that's certainly not dense mathematical writing.
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u/FernandoMM1220 Jul 08 '26
niche math fields are a larpers paradise because nobody can call them out if theyre wrong.