The work was described in a 24 November press release from Oxenhielm and covered in several media outlets including the BBC. But the paper immediately came under fire from mathematicians. “It’s completely inadequate - I can’t imagine who would have thought it was a proof,” says John Mather of Princeton University, New Jersey.Apparently, after having passed its first review and having been accepted for publication in Nonlinear Analysis, the journal pulled the paper until further review of the paper is completed. I wonder to myself if this was accepted because someone was just “socially promoting” Oxenhielm for whatever reason.
This article at Nature states that the sixteenth Hilbert problem that was supposed to have been partially sovled by Elin Oxenhielm is facing scrutiny from further mathematicians’ reviews of the paper.
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