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Mathematician Claims Proof of Riemann Hypothesis

Posted by timothy on from the peer-review-pending dept.

TheSync points to this press release about a Purdue University mathematician, Louis de Branges de Bourcia, who claims to have "proven the Riemann hypothesis, considered to be the greatest unsolved problem in mathematics. It states that all non-trivial zeros of the zeta function lie on the line 1/2 + it as t ranges over the real numbers. You can read his proof here. The Clay Mathematics Institute offers a $1 million prize to the first prover."

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  1. The Reimann Hypothesis by Silverlancer · · Score: 0, Redundant

    For those of you who don't know, a proof of the Reimann Hypothesis is THE HOLY GRAIL OF MATHEMATICS. It is like a room temperature superconductor for engineering, a quantum computer for computing, or a Theory of Everything for physics. There have been many false proofs, but considering that Fermat's Last Theorem was proved, this might be too.

  2. That's astonishing by gustgr · · Score: 1, Redundant

    Great minds have already tried and failled on proving Riemann Hypothesis, including John Nash and John Von Neumann, both from Princeton Advanced Studies Center.

    If this proof were accepted by the mathematician community I belive Louis the Branges will be considered one of the greatest mathematicians of this new millenium.