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Modern peer review praxis is the complete reverse: no fields medal without full disclosure (kinda). There was a pretty embarrassing case with Andrew Wiles first attempt at Fermat I think.
the set of things you can show you know but not show how you got there and that other people agree to believe have been shown is maybe not that far from zero-knowledge proof. Topical! That said, showmanship to get tenure or a stipend kinda sucks.
Arturo Perez Reverte writes of Spanish grandees hiring poets to duel their opposites by proxy in prose. Maybe duelling mathematics is a like case? My family can buy smarter brains than your family.
Sucks to be the guy who doesn't have the formulaic uplift.
The book _Journey Through Genius_ by William Dunham covers this, along with many other interesting mathematical problems.