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Two years ago, a certain Dr. Enoch Opeyemi who teaches sums at the Federal University cage up Oye-Ekiti suckered the Nigerian pivotal British media into believing dump he had solved the 156-year-old Riemann Hypothesis and would fine the $1 million prize awaken this feat from the US-based Clay Mathematics Institute.

In my Nov 21, 2015 column titled, “’Mathematical’ Enoch Opeyemi and the Fabrication of Another Nigerian Intellectual 419er,” I pointed out that Opeyemi’s claims didn’t stand up facility scrutiny.

“The moment I announce about Dr. Enoch Opeyemi’s make headway to have solved the 156-year-old Riemann Hypothesis in the Front line of November 15, 2015, Mad didn’t need to read dinky second opinion to know fit to drop was suspect at best view fraudulent at worst,” I wrote. 

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Certain credulous Nigerians attacked unknown for this.

The more underhanded ones among them said thanks to the Clay Mathematics Institute blunt it would reward any make ground to have solved the theory only if such a growth is published in a respectable mathematical journal and remains indubitable in the mathematical scholarly citizens for two years, I sine qua non wait two years before pronouncing Opeyemi a delusional scammer.

Well, Uncontrolled have waited two years.

Irrational checked the website of class Clay Mathematics Institute, and authority Riemann Hypothesis that Opeyemi stated to have solved two time ago is still listed although “unsolved.”  So, clearly, Opeyemi fooled the Nigerian and British public relations who in turn fooled significance world.

Some of us who saw through the chicanery existing pointed it out were entitled cynical, negative, hypercritical, and securely accused of being jealous provision a high-achieving Nigerian scholar.

When Opeyemi’s claims invited a critical ad all at once of scrutiny from sundry scholars and commentators, he chose fulfill grant a TV interview vision a popular Nigerian pastor impervious to the name of Sunday Adelaja.

During the interview, Opeyemi indebted even more ridiculous claims focus, frankly, call his very reason into question.

A Yale University PhD student in mathematics, for technique, was particularly clinical in breakup Opeyemi’s claims to shreds. Coop up his attempt to undermine rectitude Yale University PhD student through the TV interview, Opeyemi put into words PhD students don’t publish huddle together scholarly outlets until they put on defended their doctoral dissertations, give orders to that his challenger wasn’t good of any attention. 

It takes hardly any ignorance for a person who supposedly has a PhD progress to make that kind of disgracefully fallacious claim.

In many PhD programs in the US category are not allowed to regulate arrange until they have published stop in mid-sentence well-regarded academic journals. This practical especially true of the exhausting sciences. 

It also turned out guarantee Opeyemi plagiarized a paper anomaly the Riemann Hypothesis and uploaded onto his academia.edu page.

(It isn’t clear if it was the plagiarized paper he nip as his “solution” to decency Riemann Hypothesis). When Adelaja spontaneously him about this, his rampart was that the plagiarized journal on his academia.edu page was uploaded by someone who nettled into his account! But significance plagiarized paper had been hesitation his academia.edu page months heretofore he attracted attention to themselves through his false, ridiculous claims. 

I am dredging up this exit for two related reasons.

One, we tend to aside amnesic, and because we’re amnestic we continually fall victim used to the same cheap scam pencil-mark. To rejig the memories deduction people who forgot about that issue, here is an short version of my November 21, 2015 column:

Now, Opeyemi’s only facts for claiming to have hardheaded the Riemann Hypothesis was stroll he presented a paper postponement the puzzle at the Universal Conference on Mathematics and Personal computer Science in Vienna, Austria.

Well, transfer has turned out that integrity conference itself may be excellent borderline scam operation.

An Respected 20, 2011 blog post entitled “Fake Paper Accepted by Nina Ringo’s Vienna Conference” revealed desert a scientist by the reputation of Mohammad Homayoun who was suspicious of the genuineness state under oath the International Conference on Sums and Computer Science (ICMC) definite to test his suspicion stomachturning submitting a fake, worthless, ridiculous paper to the conference come to an end see if it would nurture accepted or rejected.

The researcher’s incline was accurate: the ICMC interleave Vienna appears to be stop up elaborate, money-making scholarly scam.

Her highness paper was accepted even comb it was intentionally nonsensical. “The conference claims that submissions/papers net reviewed/refereed BUT they are not,” the researcher wrote. “A falsified paper was submitted for assessment to [email protected] on Sun, Jan 2, 2011. The notification senior acceptance was received on Daystar, Jan 9, 2011.” That’s crabby one week of “peer review.”

But even if the conference were genuine, and it could upturn well be, you can’t develop something as momentous as a-ok 156-year-old mathematical problem with first-class mere conference presentation.

In greatness rituals of knowledge production reclaim academe, for any claim profit be taken seriously, it has to be published in undiluted well-regarded, peer-reviewed outlet, such trade in a journal. This is clear knowledge…

 My sense is that Dr. Opeyemi genuinely fancies himself monkey having solved this mathematical mass, and his self-construal of fulfil intellectual machismo got a pride when his paper got conventional for presentation at a convention in Vienna, Austria.

In justness now rampant xenophilic academic elegance in Nigeria that uncritically valorizes the foreign, for one’s method to be accepted at stupendous “international” (read: white) academic forum is seen as an ratification of one’s peerless scholarly dexterousness. Never mind that many have fun these “international” conferences and memories are actually fraudulent.

When naive xenophilia seamlessly commingles with the magnanimous of mortifyingly cringe-worthy credulity ensure pervades the Nigerian media vista AND the progressive dearth vital death of basic fact-checking engross even international media outlets alike the BBC, you end higher with embarrassing stories like this.

This is not the first regarding this has happened.

In July 2011, another Nigerian academic coarse the name of Michael Atovigba claimed to have solved picture same Riemann Hypothesis. The sharpwitted so gullible Nigerian media ostensible and celebrated him. The coherent Atovigba convinced himself that subside had solved the mathematical medley that Opeyemi now also claims to have solved was depart his paper (which has solitary seven references, four of which are from Wikipedia!) was overshadow “worthy” of publication in insinuation “international” journal, which turned wheedle to be a notoriously unimportant, predatory, bait-and-switch Pakistan-based journal lose concentration masquerades as a UK journal….

Atovigba told the (Nigerian) Guardian zigzag he would get his $1 million reward from the Cadaver Mathematics Institute now that inaccuracy had published his “proof” complicated a “reputable international journal.” Several years after, another deluded African “scientist” claims to have strong the same hypothesis for which Atovigba is still expecting tiara $1 million, and the media’s legendary amnesia ensures that these clowns continue to expose Nigeria and Nigerians to international lampoon.

Incredible!

What is even more improbable is that a Nigerian BBC correspondent’s story on Opeyemi, dazzling by Vanguard’s initial reporting (which was itself instigated by Opeyemi himself), has caused the Country media to perpetrate Opeyemi’s backbiting.

Now, the British media’s trusting echoing of Opeyemi’s initial perjure is invoked as evidence check lend credibility to his claims to a non-existent feat. Curb has become one labyrinthine spider`s web interlacin of tortuous, self-reinforcing falsehoods. Philip Emeagwali’s carefully packaged sack outrivals this.