Prime numbers are all over the news. The announcement that a mathematician may have solved the Riemann Hypothesis practically drowned out the Reagan coverage. Well, nearly - the BBC picked it up, anyway, and now the professor's site is down, so something seems to be happening.
Of course, the cicada story has been everywhere - what is up with those 13 and 17 year life cycles? Predator satiation, North American glaciation, it's all here.
Now, back to work - let's glance at the 'proof' of the Riemann Hypothesis. It is part math history, part auto-biography, and it closes with a European history lesson - are all math proofs this interesting?
And let's tear out the front page! Yesterday, this proof was available at the professor's website; today, both the website and the proof are crashed out, returning the classic "The page cannot be displayed" message. Is the site now so popular that the college server can't handle it, or is something more interesting going on? Don the tin-foil Yankee cap!
Regardless, the Google cache has the proof as an HTML file. However, I can't seem to copy anything from it - maybe the problem is not at the Perdue server, but closer to home than I realize.
Developing...
Also buried is the UN coming up with what could be a major clue to the WMDs... Did Tom or Dan or Peter tell you about that one?
Posted by: HH | June 11, 2004 at 10:33 AM
Don't worry about the proof, it is an old one and a hole has already been published. But I thought the article was interesting, and, if you like, I can send you the pdf. Just email me
Posted by: Oscar | June 11, 2004 at 03:16 PM