Eight years after he first shared it online, Kyoto University mathematician Shinichi Mochizuki's controversial, 600-page proof for a profound mathematical conjecture had been approved for publication in an academic journal.

But there's a twist: academic mathematicians around the world didn't believe that Mochizuki solved the problem, known as the "abc conjecture," back then, Nature News reports, and they remained unconvinced. If Mochizuki ends up being right, he could revolutionize number theory. But experts in the field don't think acceptance in a journal is nearly enough evidence. (1)

Prove something.

It is not enough.

Because you must prove that you proved it.

So that other people believe you.

Nothing pettier.

Knowledge is not to be shared.

Knowledge is not to be proved.

True wisdom is there to be experienced.

And when you do experience it.

You must hide it well.

Deep inside.

For no one else to find it.

For when they do.

It is not wisdom anymore.

But a dead animal.

Laying on a lab.

With stupid people believing in it.

Just because they see it.