> We rely on mathematicians, peer review, and letting the scientific process run its course. Granted for the sake of argument. But for this process, there's n

> We rely on mathematicians, peer review, and letting the scientific process run its course. Granted for the sake of argument. But for this process, there's no requirement anyone from Clay needs to be involved, nor that anything has to be published in a traditional journal. Terrence Tao can download the pdf, think it over, and publish on his blog, and it would be just as valid. Then some other mathematician can write something on 4chan or whatever. (See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superpermutation#Lower_bounds,_or_the_Haruhi_problem https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superpermutation#Lower_bounds,... for 4chan.)