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

Re:Here it is in small words

[EllisDees]

EVERY point lies on a line parallel to an axis

They don't all fall on the *same* line, though.

Re:Forget bigger numbers, how about smaller words?

[Brane]

You can read about the Riemann Hypothesis and the Zeta Function at MathWorld.

However, for more details, you would have to look it up in a book on number theory or something like that.

Prove This

[LordYUK]

I'm still waiting for someone to prove this: Step One: Steal Underpants Step Two: ... Step Three: Profit. When they can prove that, THEN I'll be impressed. :)

Here's some background info...

[RobinH]

... on the Riemann Hypothesis:

Riemann Hypothesis

It has been solved.

[Decimal]

I have discovered a truly remarkable proof of the Riemann Hypothesis...

But this margin is too small to contain it.