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Thanks for the clarification. The talk page of the wikipedia article that I linked already shows that this is quite a "hot" topic. These scientific controvers

Thanks for the clarification. The talk page of the wikipedia article that I linked already shows that this is quite a "hot" topic. These scientific controversies are really fun to follow. In mathematics there's not as much drama! We barely have a handful of crackpot proofs of Riemann hypothesis per decade. (Except in theoretical computer science, thanks to the inestimable input of quantum computing people).

moloch-hai 4y ago
It is pathetic that it was ever controversial, another victim of militant uniformitarianism. People actually insisted it was impossible because a comet strike could not be so recent, as if there was a schedule, and as if we know them all. Turns out we didn't! And there isn't. A valid proof of Riemann that fails to elucidate primes would face deep apathy, and would probably never be reviewed properly, rejected over spurious nitpicks. There might even be one.