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Has the Riemann hypothesis been solved?
Maybe. Of course there have been false alarms before. The Riemann hypothesis, often considered the greatest unsolved problem in mathematics, concerns whether the distribution of prime numbers has a particular order.
Here is one summary of the problem; here is another, with some more technical links.
You can check out the would-be proof yourself.
Posted by Tyler Cowen on June 10, 2004 at 11:06 AM in Science | Permalink
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