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Claimed Proof of Riemann Hypothesis

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the two-scoops-of-math-please dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Xian-Jin Li claims to have proven the Riemann hypothesis in this preprint on the arXiv." We've mentioned recent advances in the search for a proof but if true, I'm told this is important stuff. Me, I use math to write dirty words on my calculator.

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  1. Previous proofs by RockMFR · · Score: 4, Interesting

    http://secamlocal.ex.ac.uk/people/staff/mrwatkin/zeta/RHproofs.htm

  2. The REAL importance is Primes by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Section two of the wiki article (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riemann_hypothesis) is the great importance here. If indeed there is a proof of Riemann's Hypothesis, then there is a similar proof of the Generalized Riemann Hypothesis, which is in turn a big step in finding the exact distribution of prime numbers.

    Finding the distribution of prime numbers has epic consequences, like breaking most encryption, for starters.