4 ms·

Can someone with more knowledge than me contextualize this result? It appears to be making progress on the Riemann hypothesis, but why is this particular effort

• lisper 9y ago
  https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16188347 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16188347
• feniv 9y ago
  For context, the author is the notable fields medal winner Terence Tao - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terence_Tao https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terence_Tao - and finding the lower bounds for this constant has been a long running endeavor in pure mathematics - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_Bruijn%E2%80%93Newman_constant https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_Bruijn%E2%80%93Newman_const...
  • cpfohl 9y ago
    Most useful comment here.
• deleted 9y ago
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