"Mind boggling" is an understatement. The proof of Fermat's Last Theorem is insanely complex and required the invention of new branches of mathematics. It took years for the proof to be accepted because it was so hard to understand.
It's analogous to them sitting down and building a working tokomak in the street with hand tools and an issue of Popular Science.
He totally missed the opportunity to have them try to prove the Riemann hypothesis.
