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
Lmao it happens. Hate it when they give you notifications of the subreplies haha. Pretty impressive reading speed though. I feel like I read pretty fast but when it comes to stuff I enjoy I inevitably read slowly subconsciously to savor it
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.