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I love this quote: > A meeting on how to extend the GPY method was immediately organized at the American Institute of Mathematics in San Jose, California. As a
by rfurmani 6y ago
I love this quote:
> A meeting on how to extend the GPY method was immediately organized at the American Institute of Mathematics in San Jose, California. As a bright-eyed and bushy-tailed grad student, I felt extraordinarily lucky to be there among the world’s top experts. By the end of the week, the experts agreed that it was basically impossible to improve the GPY method to get bounded prime gaps. Fortunately, Yitang Zhang did not attend this meeting. Almost a decade later, after years of incredibly hard work in relative isolation, he found a way around the impasse and proved the experts wrong. I guess the moral of my story is that when people organize meetings on how not to solve the Riemann hypothesis (as they do from time to time), don’t go!
- rfurmani 6y agoThat said, I do wish I were at AIM's meeting on the Riemann Hypothesis :-) https://aimath.org/rh2018/ https://aimath.org/rh2018/ The lecture videos are online and are a good way to get both historical context and connection to how people are thinking about it currently. This seminar talk on how to fail to prove RH was also great https://www.math.rutgers.edu/news-events/list-all-events/icalrepeat.detail/2020/09/29/10896/-/how-to-fail-to-prove-the-riemann-hypothesis https://www.math.rutgers.edu/news-events/list-all-events/ica...
- Jabbles 6y agoIs that a link to a VoD or a historical event with no recording?