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Who do you mean? The author of the tweet is Levent Alpöge, who does not have a PhD in math from Cambridge... but does have a PhD in math from Princeton. And his advisor was Fields Medalist Manjul Bhargava.

Also, there is no way this counterexample is wrong. You can very easily check it for yourself. (I did, I don't know why, obviously Levent wouldn't be wrong about this, but I guess I was in shock.)



Irony in the message you're responding to likely suffering from slop-facts itself.

And indeed it's trivial to verify.




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