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Solution to one of the “Millennium Prize Problems”

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The document hasn't been composed in LaTeX. That's usually a pretty big red flag.

However, the other big red flags common to crankwork -- excessive philosophical musing, violation of the lemma-proof-theorem structure -- are absent. I'll wait on some peer-review and hopefully a translation into English.

Also, legitimate papers never are titled/abstracted with only "this is a solution to Famous Problem" but are more specific to what it solves/relates to

Example: "Modular elliptic curves and Fermat's Last Theorem"

often a proof will hinge on a key conjecture, so the paper is named after the conjecture

Is it usual for mathematical papers to be so badly written (layout)?

The author's layout looks pretty normal to me (aside from it not being in LaTeX). For reference, here's a good math paper by Noam Elkies with fairly standard layout: http://arxiv.org/pdf/1601.07541.pdf

Is this for real? Who is Shokir Davlatov? Google doesn't show much, he's apparently from Uzbekistan: http://the-newspapers.com/2016/04/10/uzbek-mathematician-sai...

After a rapid search through russian language news I could'nt find much information either, except that he is not listed on the site of his university.

I won't hold my breath until this has been sufficiently reviewed by mathematicians, especially Terence Tao, since he has also work done work in this area: http://arxiv.org/abs/1402.0290 .

I will wait and let the mathematicians review the proof.

Wow this is huge! The PDF is in a language I don't recognize. (not that it'd help)

It's in russian.

It appears encrypted, but I trust some authority will be able to obtain the plaintext...

Time to short ANSYS stocks!

12 pages = huge red flag. these type of proofs go into hundred + pages

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