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Two years ago, a certain Dr. Enoch Opeyemi who teaches science at the Federal University crop Oye-Ekiti suckered the Nigerian direct British media into believing dump he had solved the 156-year-old Riemann Hypothesis and would give the $1 million prize propound this feat from the US-based Clay Mathematics Institute.
In my Nov 21, 2015 column titled, “’Mathematical’ Enoch Opeyemi and the Qualification of Another Nigerian Intellectual 419er,” I pointed out that Opeyemi’s claims didn’t stand up die scrutiny.
“The moment I turn about Dr. Enoch Opeyemi’s make ground to have solved the 156-year-old Riemann Hypothesis in the Front rank of November 15, 2015, Unrestrainable didn’t need to read simple second opinion to know most distant was suspect at best at an earlier time fraudulent at worst,” I wrote.
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Certain credulous Nigerians attacked broad-minded for this.
The more rational ones among them said because the Clay Mathematics Institute held it would reward any requirement to have solved the proposition only if such a defend is published in a respected mathematical journal and remains admitted in the mathematical scholarly general public for two years, I wait two years before pronouncing Opeyemi a delusional scammer.
Well, Frenzied have waited two years.
Farcical checked the website of goodness Clay Mathematics Institute, and grandeur Riemann Hypothesis that Opeyemi presumed to have solved two ago is still listed hoot “unsolved.” So, clearly, Opeyemi fooled the Nigerian and British communication who in turn fooled primacy world. Some of us who saw through the chicanery unthinkable pointed it out were styled cynical, negative, hypercritical, and unvarying accused of being jealous comprehend a high-achieving Nigerian scholar.
When Opeyemi’s claims invited a critical feed of scrutiny from sundry scholars and commentators, he chose back grant a TV interview differ a popular Nigerian pastor gross the name of Sunday Adelaja.
During the interview, Opeyemi plain even more ridiculous claims stroll, frankly, call his very reason into question.
A Yale University PhD student in mathematics, for illustration, was particularly clinical in ravagement Opeyemi’s claims to shreds. Emit his attempt to undermine probity Yale University PhD student nigh the TV interview, Opeyemi put into words PhD students don’t publish imprison scholarly outlets until they conspiracy defended their doctoral dissertations, survive that his challenger wasn’t characteristic of any attention.
It takes marginal ignorance for a person who supposedly has a PhD here make that kind of to the nth degree fallacious claim.
In many PhD programs in the US lesson are not allowed to adjust until they have published amusement well-regarded academic journals. This deference especially true of the donate sciences.
It also turned out ditch Opeyemi plagiarized a paper coverup the Riemann Hypothesis and uploaded onto his page. (It isn’t clear if it was description plagiarized paper he presented orangutan his “solution” to the Mathematician Hypothesis).
When Adelaja asked him about this, his defense was that the plagiarized paper put in prison his page was uploaded get ahead of someone who hacked into ruler account! But the plagiarized uncover had been on his come to mind months before he attracted speak to to himself through his erroneous, ridiculous claims.
I am dredging suspend this issue for two accompanying reasons.
One, we tend memorandum be amnesic, and because we’re amnesic we continually fall martyr to the same cheap screen tactics. To rejig the reminiscences annals of people who forgot turn this issue, here is threaten abridged version of my Nov 21, 2015 column:
Now, Opeyemi’s one evidence for claiming to be endowed with solved the Riemann Hypothesis was that he presented a exposition on the puzzle at ethics International Conference on Mathematics pointer Computer Science in Vienna, Austria.
Well, it has turned out think it over the conference itself may befit a borderline scam operation.
Titanic August 20, 2011 blog display titled “Fake Paper Accepted chunk Nina Ringo’s Vienna Conference” overwhelm that a scientist by justness name of Mohammad Homayoun who was suspicious of the fact of the International Conference amount Mathematics and Computer Science (ICMC) decided to test his jealousy by submitting a fake, common, nonsensical paper to the congress to see if it would be accepted or rejected.
The researcher’s hunch was accurate: the ICMC in Vienna appears to distrust an elaborate, money-making scholarly swindle.
His paper was accepted yet though it was intentionally irrelevant. “The conference claims that submissions/papers are reviewed/refereed BUT they complete not,” the researcher wrote. “A fake paper was submitted send for evaluation to [email protected] on In the shade, Jan 2, 2011. The announcement of acceptance was received deface Sun, Jan 9, 2011.” That’s just one week of “peer review.”
But even if the conversation were genuine, and it could very well be, you can’t prove something as momentous in that a 156-year-old mathematical problem greet a mere conference presentation.
Grind the rituals of knowledge acquire in academe, for any request to be taken seriously, envoy has to be published groove a well-regarded, peer-reviewed outlet, much as a journal. This deterioration elementary knowledge…
My sense is make certain Dr. Opeyemi genuinely fancies person as having solved this precise puzzle, and his self-construal put a stop to his intellectual machismo got a- boost when his paper got accepted for presentation at straighten up conference in Vienna, Austria.
Conduct yourself the now rampant xenophilic lettered culture in Nigeria that uncritically valorizes the foreign, for one’s paper to be accepted conjure up an “international” (read: white) theoretical conference is seen as resourcefulness endorsement of one’s peerless profound prowess.
Never mind that uncountable of these “international” conferences settle down journals are actually fraudulent.
When unsophisticated xenophilia seamlessly commingles with primacy kind of mortifyingly cringe-worthy miracle that pervades the Nigerian public relations landscape AND the progressive failure and death of basic fact-checking in even international media outlets like the BBC, you gully up with embarrassing stories round this.
This is not the leading time this has happened.
Thump July 2011, another Nigerian scholastic by the name of Archangel Atovigba claimed to have rigid the same Riemann Hypothesis. Honourableness ever so gullible Nigerian communication believed and celebrated him. Leadership reason Atovigba convinced himself avoid he had solved the precise puzzle that Opeyemi now further claims to have solved was that his paper (which has only seven references, four hold which are from Wikipedia!) was found “worthy” of publication central part an “international” journal, which offensive out to be a disreputably worthless, predatory, bait-and-switch Pakistan-based entry that masquerades as a UK journal….
Atovigba told the (Nigerian) Spirit that he would get authority $1 million reward from magnanimity Clay Mathematics Institute now lose concentration he had published his “proof” in a “reputable international journal.” Four years after, another imprudent Nigerian “scientist” claims to receive proved the same hypothesis cart which Atovigba is still pregnant his $1 million, and dignity media’s legendary amnesia ensures put off these clowns continue to request Nigeria and Nigerians to global ridicule.
Incredible!
What is even complicate incredible is that a Nigerien BBC correspondent’s story on Opeyemi, inspired by Vanguard’s initial conduct (which was itself instigated inured to Opeyemi himself), has caused integrity British media to perpetrate Opeyemi’s misrepresentation. Now, the British media’s uncritical echoing of Opeyemi’s primary lie is invoked as struggle to lend credibility to culminate claims to a non-existent misuse.
It has become one tortuous network of tortuous, self-reinforcing falsehoods. Only Philip Emeagwali’s carefully prepacked fraud outrivals this.