Tag Archives: Riemann hypothesis

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

Elementary P v. NP

Posted on May 15, 2017 by

One episode of the TV show ‘Elementary’ involves three mathematicians and a race to solve the P-versus-NP problem. Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged computational complexity, deus ex machina, Elementary, Joan Watson, P versus NP, prime factorisation, Riemann hypothesis, Robert Lipton, Scott Aaronson, Sherlock Holmes | Comments Off