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Michael Atiyah claims proof of 160-year-old Riemann hypothesis
- ColinWright 8y agoThere is significant scepticism[0][1] surrounding this, and many, many submissions: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18049016 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18049016 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18046533 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18046533 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18044050 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18044050 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18042687 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18042687 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18042513 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18042513 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18042116 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18042116 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18041616 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18041616 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18039613 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18039613 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18038790 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18038790 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18036367 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18036367 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18032207 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18032207 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18029551 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18029551 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18029459 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18029459 ============================================= [0] https://old.reddit.com/r/math/comments/9hl35w/sir_michael_atiyah_announced_a_proof_of_the/e6cxbin/ https://old.reddit.com/r/math/comments/9hl35w/sir_michael_at... [1] https://mathoverflow.net/questions/311062/sir-michael-atiyahs-conference-on-the-riemann-hypothesis https://mathoverflow.net/questions/311062/sir-michael-atiyah...
- gus_massa 8y agoOnly https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18029459 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18029459 has non trivial discussion. [I agree that the proof will probably not check out.]
- ColinWright 8y ago... and even that is just four comments. But there's not a lot to discuss at this stage.