Tag Archives: Bernhard Riemann

A fountainhead of intrigue

Posted on November 24, 2022 by

Recently, a Chinese-American mathematician named Yitang Zhang claimed to have resolved the Landau-Siegel zeroes conjecture, which is related to the Riemann hypothesis. (Specifically, disproving the conjecture brings us a small stop closer to proving the Riemann hypothesis.) His paper hasn’t … Continue reading →

Posted in Scicomm | Tagged Barry Cipra, Bernhard Riemann, Brian Hayes, Michael Berry, nontrivial zeroes, random Hermitian matrix, Riemann hypothesis, Riemann zeta function, S Pancharatnam | Comments Off

Science v. tech, à la Cixin Liu

Posted on January 16, 2020 by

A fascinating observation by Cixin Liu in an interview in Public Books, to John Plotz and translated by Pu Wang (numbers added): … technology precedes science. (1) Way before the rise of modern science, there were so many technologies, so … Continue reading →

Posted in Culture, Science | Tagged Bernhard Riemann, Cixin Liu, glass ceiling, Large Hadron Collider, mathematics, non-Euclidean geometry, particle physics, Riemannian geometry, technology, Three Body Problem | Comments Off

Geometry’s near-miss that wasn’t

Posted on June 16, 2017 by

The extent of Euclidean geometry’s imperfections only really came to light when physicists used Riemann’s geometry to set up the theories of relativity. Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Bernhard Riemann, Carl Friedrich Gauss, Euclid, Evelyn Lamb, Geometry, Heegner number, Ramanujan constant | Comments Off