Here’s a two-sentence summary: “A complete amateur sent a friend-of-a-friend mathematics PhD holder who is now a blogger and the strategist for an online tutoring company a (surely incorrect) 2-page “proof” of a famous unsolved problem. The blogger originally was planning to ignore it because it has a vanishingly small chance of meaning anything to anyone other than the amateur, but when he heard the story of a retired statistician making a successful short proof of a much-less-famous unsolved problem a few years ago, he changed his mind, and now plans to read the 2 pages”.

Many mathematicians are sent “proofs” of famous unsolved problems (not to mention “proofs” of statements that have already been proven false) on a regular basis. There’s not much novel here.

The blogger also rambled on about various tangentially related stuff to flesh out his story, most of which is either already known or relatively irrelevant to most readers here.

It’s all fine and dandy that he wants to read his friend-of-a-friend’s work and give him feedback. I’m sure the amateur will appreciate it. But does it really make me “cynical” to say that I don’t find the story very interesting or enlightening?