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Mathematicians Are Getting Closer to Translating an ‘Alien Language’

created: June 9, 2025, noon | updated: June 13, 2025, 4:34 p.m.

This could help make progress in understanding math enigmas like the ABC Conjecture and Fermat’s Last Theorem. It’s likely that you won’t understand any of the mathematics in this article, but you’d be in good company—most mathematicians don’t understand it, either. According to mathematics expert Kato Fumimot, speaking to the South China Morning Post (SCMP), the theory is almost an otherworldly creation. Related Story The Math Behind Discovering Exoplanets“Imagine an alien coming to Earth who can only speak an extraterrestrial language,” Fumimot told the SCMP. According to some estimates, only two dozen or so mathematicians in the world can even begin to understand this mysterious language.

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