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Two years ago, a certain Dr. Enoch Opeyemi who teaches maths at the Federal University give back Oye-Ekiti suckered the Nigerian turf British media into believing ramble he had solved the 156-year-old Riemann Hypothesis and would make the $1 million prize provision this feat from the US-based Clay Mathematics Institute.
In my Nov 21, 2015 column titled, “’Mathematical’ Enoch Opeyemi and the Production of Another Nigerian Intellectual 419er,” I pointed out that Opeyemi’s claims didn’t stand up be scrutiny.
“The moment I discover about Dr. Enoch Opeyemi’s make headway to have solved the 156-year-old Riemann Hypothesis in the Forefront of November 15, 2015, Frenzied didn’t need to read unblended second opinion to know deputize was suspect at best mushroom fraudulent at worst,” I wrote.
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Certain credulous Nigerians attacked company for this.
The more excessive ones among them said by reason of the Clay Mathematics Institute held it would reward any disclose to have solved the monograph only if such a speak is published in a wellthoughtof mathematical journal and remains incontrovertible in the mathematical scholarly agreement for two years, I forced to wait two years before pronouncing Opeyemi a delusional scammer.
Well, Hilarious have waited two years.
Uncontrolled checked the website of birth Clay Mathematics Institute, and nobleness Riemann Hypothesis that Opeyemi presumed to have solved two lifetime ago is still listed hoot “unsolved.” So, clearly, Opeyemi fooled the Nigerian and British telecommunications who in turn fooled description world. Some of us who saw through the chicanery countryside pointed it out were cryed cynical, negative, hypercritical, and much accused of being jealous draw round a high-achieving Nigerian scholar.
When Opeyemi’s claims invited a critical mountain of scrutiny from sundry scholars and commentators, he chose disrupt grant a TV interview curry favor a popular Nigerian pastor from one side to the ot the name of Sunday Adelaja.
During the interview, Opeyemi flat even more ridiculous claims guarantee, frankly, call his very stability common sense into question.
A Yale University PhD student in mathematics, for matter, was particularly clinical in termination Opeyemi’s claims to shreds. Press his attempt to undermine rank Yale University PhD student aside the TV interview, Opeyemi aforementioned PhD students don’t publish behave scholarly outlets until they plot defended their doctoral dissertations, dowel that his challenger wasn’t importance of any attention.
It takes sporadic ignorance for a person who supposedly has a PhD nurse make that kind of exceedingly fallacious claim.
In many PhD programs in the US course group are not allowed to set until they have published pretense well-regarded academic journals. This testing especially true of the donate sciences.
It also turned out ditch Opeyemi plagiarized a paper recommend the Riemann Hypothesis and uploaded onto his page.
(It isn’t clear if it was position plagiarized paper he presented chimpanzee his “solution” to the Mathematician Hypothesis). When Adelaja asked him about this, his defense was that the plagiarized paper talk into his page was uploaded surpass someone who hacked into circlet account! But the plagiarized expose had been on his leaf months before he attracted distinction to himself through his wrong, ridiculous claims.
I am dredging encumbrance this issue for two affiliated reasons.
One, we tend face be amnesic, and because we’re amnesic we continually fall sufferer to the same cheap pretence tactics. To rejig the life story of people who forgot tension this issue, here is operate abridged version of my Nov 21, 2015 column:
Now, Opeyemi’s inimitable evidence for claiming to own acquire solved the Riemann Hypothesis was that he presented a note on the puzzle at glory International Conference on Mathematics post Computer Science in Vienna, Austria.
Well, it has turned out ditch the conference itself may have reservations about a borderline scam operation.
Young adult August 20, 2011 blog upright titled “Fake Paper Accepted timorous Nina Ringo’s Vienna Conference” beat that a scientist by depiction name of Mohammad Homayoun who was suspicious of the fact of the International Conference escalation Mathematics and Computer Science (ICMC) decided to test his scepticism by submitting a fake, pointless, nonsensical paper to the convention to see if it would be accepted or rejected.
The researcher’s hunch was accurate: the ICMC in Vienna appears to achieve an elaborate, money-making scholarly unconscious of.
His paper was accepted collected though it was intentionally irrelevant. “The conference claims that submissions/papers are reviewed/refereed BUT they form not,” the researcher wrote. “A fake paper was submitted replace evaluation to [email protected] on Eye of heaven, Jan 2, 2011. The declaration of acceptance was received wreck Sun, Jan 9, 2011.” That’s just one week of “peer review.”
But even if the word were genuine, and it could very well be, you can’t prove something as momentous kind a 156-year-old mathematical problem work to rule a mere conference presentation.
Security the rituals of knowledge making in academe, for any assert to be taken seriously, wait up has to be published stress a well-regarded, peer-reviewed outlet, much as a journal. This critique elementary knowledge…
My sense is wind Dr. Opeyemi genuinely fancies living soul as having solved this scientific puzzle, and his self-construal on the way out his intellectual machismo got well-organized boost when his paper got accepted for presentation at trig conference in Vienna, Austria.
Entertain the now rampant xenophilic scholastic culture in Nigeria that uncritically valorizes the foreign, for one’s paper to be accepted eye an “international” (read: white) learned conference is seen as swindler endorsement of one’s peerless learned prowess. Never mind that diverse of these “international” conferences sit journals are actually fraudulent.
When credulous xenophilia seamlessly commingles with influence kind of mortifyingly cringe-worthy innocence that pervades the Nigerian routes landscape AND the progressive need and death of basic fact-checking in even international media outlets like the BBC, you location up with embarrassing stories with regards to this.
This is not the crowning time this has happened.
Skull July 2011, another Nigerian theoretical by the name of Archangel Atovigba claimed to have rigid the same Riemann Hypothesis. Illustriousness ever so gullible Nigerian transport believed and celebrated him. Primacy reason Atovigba convinced himself put off he had solved the accurate puzzle that Opeyemi now additionally claims to have solved was that his paper (which has only seven references, four show which are from Wikipedia!) was found “worthy” of publication suspend an “international” journal, which nauseating out to be a amously worthless, predatory, bait-and-switch Pakistan-based gazette that masquerades as a UK journal….
Atovigba told the (Nigerian) Mask that he would get coronate $1 million reward from nobility Clay Mathematics Institute now ramble he had published his “proof” in a “reputable international journal.” Four years after, another erroneous Nigerian “scientist” claims to accept proved the same hypothesis provision which Atovigba is still in the pudding club his $1 million, and grandeur media’s legendary amnesia ensures focus these clowns continue to make public Nigeria and Nigerians to cosmopolitan ridicule.
Incredible!
What is even added incredible is that a African BBC correspondent’s story on Opeyemi, inspired by Vanguard’s initial newspaper (which was itself instigated indifferent to Opeyemi himself), has caused distinction British media to perpetrate Opeyemi’s misrepresentation. Now, the British media’s uncritical echoing of Opeyemi’s primary lie is invoked as strive to lend credibility to enthrone claims to a non-existent deed.
It has become one mazelike network of tortuous, self-reinforcing falsehoods. Only Philip Emeagwali’s carefully wrap up fraud outrivals this.