More on Riemann Hypothesis

Anonymous Coward writes "The NYTimes has a little story on a recent conference at New York University's Courant Institute where mathematicians gathered to discuss potential attacks on the Riemann hypothesis. The Clay Mathematics Institute had announced an award of a million dollars for a proof (or refutation) of the Riemann hypothesis during the millenial celebrations. That million dollars won't be worth much if it takes as long as that Last Theorem by Fermat to solve. There were some interesting observations such as the statistical distribution of the zeros looked just like calculations on the energy levels of large atoms." We did a related story on hard math problems two years ago.

Comments

Could you get a bit more arrogant please?

[A nonymous Coward]

What an attitude! You are so full of yourself that all you have really done is prove that you don't know jack.

If you can't explain something in ordinary words to a layman, then you really don't understand it. It isn't until you teach something that you really begin to understand it.

Re:Forget bigger numbers, how about smaller words?

[uncoveror]

Another great challenge would be to express the value of Pi absolutely using a mixed number, rather than a decimal. For a simpler challenge, check this out.