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Nigerian Solves 156-year Knotty Maths Hypothesis, Wins $1m – DailyPost Nigeria

29 points by frandroid 11y ago

BetaCygni 11y ago
To get the $1.000.000 (one million dollars) he just has to send a small amount of money to cover legal and administrative costs. (sorry, it's good to hear (edit: if true...) that science is going strong in Nigeria)
- WalterSear 11y ago
  It's not. The evidence points fraud.
  - frandroid 11y ago
    Read again, you're not getting the joke.
DamnYuppie 11y ago
"He also once designed the prototype of a silo for peasant farmers and discovered a scientific technique for detecting and tracking someone on an evil mission." I would be very curious to know how someone can detect that another is on an "evil mission". Or more specifically what his criteria for evil was.
Khol 11y ago
Seems not: https://www.quora.com/Has-the-Riemann-Hypothesis-been-solved-by-a-Nigerian-professor https://www.quora.com/Has-the-Riemann-Hypothesis-been-solved...
azeirah 11y ago
Yesterday the same post without a source showed up.. What's going on lol? I don't believe this is real until I see a more trustworthy source.
- jessaustin 11y ago
  Not sure if this [0] is more reliable, but it says, "However his solution to the problem has not yet been revealed." [0] http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/africaandindianocean/nigeria/12000314/The-Riemann-Hypothesis-solution-found-by-Dr-Opeyemi-Enoch.html http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/africaandindianoce...
  - azeirah 11y ago
    The title says that the professor claims to have solved the problem. I'll believe him when clay agrees.
  - Grue3 11y ago
    Even BBC fell for it! [1] Now there are enough "reliable" sources to include it into the Wikipedia article! And then everyone else looks up the Wikipedia article and assumes it's true. Can a problem be considered unsolved if most people think it is solved? [1] http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p03891wc http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p03891wc
sbierwagen 11y ago
Copying my comment on a similar submission yesterday https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10576562 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10576562 --- Source is incredibly dubious. Contains the following sentence: Dr. Enoch had previously designed a Prototype of a silo for peasant farmers and also discovered a scientific technique for detecting and tracking someone on an evil mission. A Dr. Enoch Opeyemi is indeed on the schedule for ICMCS 2015, but the title of his talk was just "A Matrix That Generates the Point Spectral of the Riemann Zeta Function": http://computer.conference-site.com/program.docx http://computer.conference-site.com/program.docx I haven't been able to find the contents of that talk. The CMI page for the problem hasn't been updated yet: http://www.claymath.org/millennium-problems/riemann-hypothesis http://www.claymath.org/millennium-problems/riemann-hypothes... I haven't been able to find anything about a new proof of the Riemann Hypothesis in any of the usual places. (math.SE, etc)
octatoan 11y ago
http://aperiodical.com/2015/11/riemann-hypothesis-not-proved/ http://aperiodical.com/2015/11/riemann-hypothesis-not-proved...
rubidium 11y ago
Please stop upvoting these stories until more can be verified. As of now, it seems to be a hoax: http://www.nairaland.com/2739995/opeyemi-enoch-not-solved-riemann http://www.nairaland.com/2739995/opeyemi-enoch-not-solved-ri... There are regular announcements to solutions of the Riemann Hypothesis (see arxiv). It's really not worth paying attention to until major mathematicians or the CMI itself says something.
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wbhart 11y ago
This shouldn't be on the front page of HN. In order to get a million dollars for one of the millenium problems one needs to have one's proof accepted by a peer reviewed journal and remain unchallenged (for two years I think). This clearly hasn't happened here.
namzo 11y ago
Here's a short BBC audio interview with the Professor who claims to have solved the hypothesis. http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p03891wc http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p03891wc. I still have my doubts though.

29 points by frandroid 11y ago

To get the $1.000.000 (one million dollars) he just has to send a small amount of money to cover legal and administrative costs. (sorry, it's good to hear (edit: if true...) that science is going strong in Nigeria)

WalterSear 11y ago
It's not. The evidence points fraud.
- frandroid 11y ago
  Read again, you're not getting the joke.

DamnYuppie 11y ago

"He also once designed the prototype of a silo for peasant farmers and discovered a scientific technique for detecting and tracking someone on an evil mission." I would be very curious to know how someone can detect that another is on an "evil mission". Or more specifically what his criteria for evil was.

Khol 11y ago

Seems not: https://www.quora.com/Has-the-Riemann-Hypothesis-been-solved-by-a-Nigerian-professor https://www.quora.com/Has-the-Riemann-Hypothesis-been-solved...

azeirah 11y ago

Yesterday the same post without a source showed up.. What's going on lol? I don't believe this is real until I see a more trustworthy source.

jessaustin 11y ago
Not sure if this [0] is more reliable, but it says, "However his solution to the problem has not yet been revealed." [0] http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/africaandindianocean/nigeria/12000314/The-Riemann-Hypothesis-solution-found-by-Dr-Opeyemi-Enoch.html http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/africaandindianoce...
- azeirah 11y ago
  The title says that the professor claims to have solved the problem. I'll believe him when clay agrees.
- Grue3 11y ago
  Even BBC fell for it! [1] Now there are enough "reliable" sources to include it into the Wikipedia article! And then everyone else looks up the Wikipedia article and assumes it's true. Can a problem be considered unsolved if most people think it is solved? [1] http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p03891wc http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p03891wc

sbierwagen 11y ago

Copying my comment on a similar submission yesterday https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10576562 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10576562 --- Source is incredibly dubious. Contains the following sentence: Dr. Enoch had previously designed a Prototype of a silo for peasant farmers and also discovered a scientific technique for detecting and tracking someone on an evil mission. A Dr. Enoch Opeyemi is indeed on the schedule for ICMCS 2015, but the title of his talk was just "A Matrix That Generates the Point Spectral of the Riemann Zeta Function": http://computer.conference-site.com/program.docx http://computer.conference-site.com/program.docx I haven't been able to find the contents of that talk. The CMI page for the problem hasn't been updated yet: http://www.claymath.org/millennium-problems/riemann-hypothesis http://www.claymath.org/millennium-problems/riemann-hypothes... I haven't been able to find anything about a new proof of the Riemann Hypothesis in any of the usual places. (math.SE, etc)

octatoan 11y ago

http://aperiodical.com/2015/11/riemann-hypothesis-not-proved/ http://aperiodical.com/2015/11/riemann-hypothesis-not-proved...

rubidium 11y ago

Please stop upvoting these stories until more can be verified. As of now, it seems to be a hoax: http://www.nairaland.com/2739995/opeyemi-enoch-not-solved-riemann http://www.nairaland.com/2739995/opeyemi-enoch-not-solved-ri... There are regular announcements to solutions of the Riemann Hypothesis (see arxiv). It's really not worth paying attention to until major mathematicians or the CMI itself says something.

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wbhart 11y ago

This shouldn't be on the front page of HN. In order to get a million dollars for one of the millenium problems one needs to have one's proof accepted by a peer reviewed journal and remain unchallenged (for two years I think). This clearly hasn't happened here.

namzo 11y ago

Here's a short BBC audio interview with the Professor who claims to have solved the hypothesis. http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p03891wc http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p03891wc. I still have my doubts though.