Comment by paulpauper
16 hours ago
I wish the math was explained better . I know the format is limited ands it will go over most people's heads but it does not do the matter justice.
16 hours ago
I wish the math was explained better . I know the format is limited ands it will go over most people's heads but it does not do the matter justice.
I have an MSc in math but haven't managed to grasp modular forms, which is needed for the proof.
If anybody has a learning path or a primer recommendation for modular forms (assuming formal math education), I'd be very interested in reading more about it.
But as such I doubt it can be more accessible to everybody.
A standard textbook reference is
Diamond, Shurman, A First Course in Modular Forms, Springer GTM vol. 228.
As a first pass, check out the pop history book called Fearless Symmetry by Ash and Gross.
Next, and perhaps I shouldn't be suggesting it, Serre's A Course in Arithmetic. Despite it's reputation of terseness it is a great book by one of history's great mathematicians and worth every sweat and tear spent over its short number of pages.
Yet another way is to see the lectures by Richard Borcherds (who won the fields for the moonshine conjecture) on youtube.
Finally, since this hacker news check out William Stein's Modular Forms: A Computational Approach (pdf online)