https://www.newscientist.com/articl...ims-proof-of-160-year-old-riemann-hypothesis/

In a talk at the Heidelberg Laureate Forum in Germany, Atiyah will present what he refers to as a “simple proof” of the Riemann hypothesis, a problem which has eluded mathematicians for almost 160 years.

 

https://www.newscientist.com/articl...ims-proof-of-160-year-old-riemann-hypothesis/

That'll either be a triumphant moment or a huge "oh shit" when someone points out his error.

 

That'll either be a triumphant moment or a huge "oh shit" when someone points out his error.

I hope it really is simple, for mathematicians.

This guy has a 500 page proof with a 500 page addendum for the abc conjecture but I think someone may have already found a fundamental flaw.
https://www.quantamagazine.org/tita...h-over-epic-proof-of-abc-conjecture-20180920/

Despite multiple conferences dedicated to explicating Mochizuki’s proof, number theorists have struggled to come to grips with its underlying ideas. His series of papers, which total more than 500 pages, are written in an impenetrable style, and refer back to a further 500 pages or so of previous work by Mochizuki, creating what one mathematician, Brian Conrad of Stanford University, has called “a sense of infinite regress.”
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That has now changed. In their report, Scholze and Stix argue that a line of reasoning near the end of the proof of “Corollary 3.12” in Mochizuki’s third of four papers is fundamentally flawed. The corollary is central to Mochizuki’s proposed abc proof.

“I think the abc conjecture is still open,” Scholze said. “Anybody has a chance of proving it.”

 

"If you can't dazzle them with brilliance, baffle them with bullshit."

 

This guy's humility is admirable:

Atiyah’s self-described “simple proof” builds on the work of two leading 20th century mathematicians, John von Neumann and Friedrich Hirzebruch. By combining their insights, and assuming the Riemann hypothesis does not hold, Atiyah claims to reach a logical contradiction, implying that the hypothesis must in fact be correct. “It looks miraculous,” says Atiyah, “but I claim that all the hard work was done 70 years ago.”

https://www.newscientist.com/articl...ikely-remains-unsolved-despite-claimed-proof/

 

It is so bad.......that now they print stories that might have validity. He He. I thought they were suppose to have peers check the solution before announcing it. So there might be an announcement.......after peer review?

That was very informative and really exciting to maybe have the solution.

I don't believe a prime number is just a value number. It's a state. Each state is/has a limit of some kind.