Has the Riemann hypothesis been solved?

by on June 10, 2004 at 11:06 am in Science | Permalink

Maybe. Of course there have been false alarms before. The Riemann hypothesis, often considered the greatest unsolved problem in mathematics, concerns whether the distribution of prime numbers has a particular order.

Here is one summary of the problem; here is another, with some more technical links.

You can check out the would-be proof yourself.

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