Skepticism surrounds renowned mathematician’s attempted proof of 160-year-old hypothesis

sciencemag.org ^ | Sep. 24, 2018 , 5:15 PM | Frankie Schembri

[BenLurkin]

Of possible interest

[Publius]

Link doesn’t work.

[BenLurkin]

This should work:

https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2018/09/skepticism-surrounds-renowned-mathematician-s-attempted-proof-160-year-old-hypothesis

[SgtHooper]

42

[Nifster]

Brave man

[Scrambler Bob]

but it remains to be formally and indisputably proved out to infinity.
= = =

Using Demoncrat logic, it IS true; prove it is not.

[Hot Tabasco]

However, Riemann’s formula only holds if one assumes that the real parts of these zeta function zeroes are all equal to one-half. Reimann proved this property for the first few primes, and over the past century it has been computationally shown to work for many large numbers of primes, but it remains to be formally and indisputably proved out to infinity.

Me and my Friday night bowling buddies have been discussing this theory for several years now. I think we're close to a solution and the million dollar prize......

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks BenLurkin.

[Governor Dinwiddie]

John Derbyshire, formerly of the National Review, wrote a very readable book about this topic called Prime Obsession: Bernhard Riemann and the Greatest Unsolved Problem in Mathematics (2003).

Dr. Michael Atiyah is the mathematician making the claim. It would be surprising if this 89 year old man really did come up with a proof. Must mathematical breakthroughs are the efforts of much younger men. I guess if this old guy is right, then their is hope for everyone!
 

[SunkenCiv]

Andrew Beal (a Lansing area kid who grew up into a rocket builder, after a career in banking) has endowed a $1 million prize for a proof for his Beal Conjecture, btw. I mean, a couple of million might be nice to have.

[9422WMR]

Where did I put my TI calculator from 1982 college? I’ll have the answer in a jiff!!

[mountainlion]

Using Demoncrat logic....

Being that this is not claimed to be scientific it probably can not be proved in normal populations. Take a scientific approach to it and any theory will quickly become fact.

[Big Red Badger]

Infinity Squared.
Check Mate!
.
If you can double infinity
and double it again you’ll
Need a lot of paper to write
down all the Prime numbers.
.
How about infinity times infinity ¿

[RockyTx]

can anyone here help me
understand analytic continuation?

[jiggyboy]

“It is simply too vague and unspecific.”

[steve86]

“The crux of Atiyah’s proof depends on a quantity in physics called the fine structure constant, which describes the strength and nature of electromagnetic interaction between charged particles.”

Have to admit the relevance here escapes me.

[dhs12345]

Democrat logic: it feels good so it must be true.

[Bratch]

Oh yes. The standard formula for Global Warming advocates.

[Neanderthal]

“The crux of Atiyah’s proof depends on a quantity in physics called the fine structure constant, which describes the strength and nature of electromagnetic interaction between charged particles.”

'Have to admit the relevance here escapes me.'

Derbyshire's book cited in post 10 goes into some of the amazing connections between the prime numbers and the subatomic world.