The speaker's study group understood the statement and role of Scholze's theorem but had not carefully read the proof's details.

“So th-this was a second email from him, you know, asking specifically about checking the details of one, of one of the arguments in this paper. So I went back and looked at the paper, which is a big paper, and, uh, and, uh, we had not read the details of this.”

“We'd read the statement of the theorem. We'd understood what it was trying to say until, you know, the point of it, where it fitted into the grander scheme of things.”