Is Mochizuki implicitly comparing his IUT work to the pyramids of Ancient Egypt?? The following is missing all the usual emphatic typography, but it is a single sentence in Mochizuki's "Essential logical structure" paper, which I now find is a *hundred pages longer* than the version from 2021 I have saved on my computer:
"This approach of developmental reconstruction may be applied, for instance, to the task of evaluating the level of mathematical or scientific development of ancient civilizations, i.e., not via the direct study of detailed theoretical expositions [which are typically not readily available — cf. the discussion of §1.5!] of the mathematics or science understood by such an ancient civilization, but rather by observing what may be understood as the “fruits” of this mathematics or science, e.g., in the form of architectural achievements such as the famous
· pyramids of Egypt or
· Nazca lines and mysterious ruins of Puma Punku in South America."
This bit wasn't in the version I had saved and by now had put out of my mind because I can't read this prose any more that I already had done for reasons of trying to understand what on earth was going on.
I'm not going to link to the source, it's easily findable.
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