[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!
 

[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.