Claimed Proof of Riemann Hypothesis 345
An anonymous reader writes "Xian-Jin Li claims to have proven the Riemann hypothesis in this preprint on the arXiv." We've mentioned recent advances in the search for a proof but if true, I'm told this is important stuff. Me, I use math to write dirty words on my calculator.
Dirty Words (Score:5, Funny)
Me, I use math to write dirty words on my calculator.
Such as 80085?
Yeah but did they point this out? (Score:5, Funny)
Tried to RTFA (Score:5, Funny)
Man, where's Charles Eppes when you need something explained to you in layman's terms?
Dolly parton bought a size 69 bra (Score:1, Funny)
Re:Dirty Words (Score:5, Funny)
5318008
Re:Dirty Words (Score:5, Funny)
Reimann? (Score:5, Funny)
Hmmm.... (Score:5, Funny)
Sounds about par for the course for academic hiring, and it sounds like he's still pretty traumatized from it. I hope this works out for him and he can go around flipping off all the hiring committees who turned him down.
Math = $$ (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Reimann? (Score:5, Funny)
Oblig. (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Dirty Words (Score:5, Funny)
No for the slashdot crowd it would be: 58008uÉÉ . Because obviously we all have calculators that support unicode text entry.
Re:Dirty Words (Score:5, Funny)
That would've been a lot cooler if Slashdot supported Unicode.
Re:Dirty Words (Score:5, Funny)
On linux, wouldn't it be ...
host:>man 80085
???
Re:Tried to RTFA (Score:5, Funny)
Re:not so fast (Score:5, Funny)
Yeah. arXiv once published my paper that shows cases where P = NP; I proved it conclusively for the cases where P = 0 and/or N = 1, but so far I haven't gotten my $1,000,000.00 check from the Clay Math Institute.
Re:Congratulations! (Score:3, Funny)
Solving the energy crisis is easy.
Use less energy.
Kthxbye.
Re:Yeah but did they point this out? (Score:5, Funny)
By using Fourier analysis on number fields, we prove in this paper E. Bombieri's refinement of A. Weil's positivity condition, which implies the Riemann hypothesis for the Riemann zeta function in the spirit of A. Connes' approach to the Riemann hypothesis.
Weather permitting of course. (Just looking on the positivity side)
I thought you were randomly babbling, but then I RTFA and realized you were just quoting it...
Re:Tried to RTFA (Score:5, Funny)
Ummm...I think that WAS layman's terms. For you math geeks, try being a history major and looking at all that. It just looks like a cat walked on the keyboard to me...
Are you reading slashdot as some kind of anthropological study?
Numb3rs (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Try this. (Score:5, Funny)
your mother?
Re:Dirty Words (Score:5, Funny)
At that point, isn't it safe to assume that our calculators can just draw a pair of boobs in 2-bit greyscale?
And that we've written apps that simulate what we assume bouncing would look like given our collective lack of experience outside of the pornographic realm?
Re:Tough problems (Score:5, Funny)
If you're carrying numbers when dividing, I guess you are inventing new math :-)
Re:$1,000,000 prize to be collected then if true (Score:5, Funny)
Re:not so fast (Score:4, Funny)
They sent you your checks for cases where you are equal to 0.
Someone beat you to the "1" part.
Re:Yeah but did they point this out? (Score:5, Funny)
We have a new
Re:Dirty Words (Score:2, Funny)
Newbie...
correct spelling is "5318008" and you have to look at the calculator "umop apisdn"
Mod me down, I dare you!!!
Re:$1,000,000 prize to be collected then if true (Score:3, Funny)
And I would have succeeded if it weren't for these meddling kids! What do you mean you can't see them?!
DOOOOOMED!!!!!!! (Score:2, Funny)
I can't believe they are brazenly going forward with research into this subject without knowing if it could possibly lead to the creation of a black hole that will swallow the earth.
Re:Dirty Words (Score:2, Funny)
I had proof of concept Porn on my TI-89 in 2000.
Re:Dirty Words (Score:5, Funny)
You haven't grafted a color TFT screen to your calculator yet?
Who let these guys in?
Re:Try this. (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Hmmm.... (Score:5, Funny)
I had a history professor tell me that if he knew how hard it would be to get to where he was, he never would have been a history major.
Well, that's all in the past now.
Re:$1,000,000 prize to be collected then if true (Score:3, Funny)
Do you even know, what a number field is
It's where they grow new numbers, right?
PS: Do you, even, know: how to use correct punctuation?1!?!?!?
Re:Yeah but did they point this out? (Score:5, Funny)
Not so fast. I read it -2 times.
Re:Dirty Words (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Tried to RTFA (Score:3, Funny)
It's like 50 football fields laid in line from here to Riemann.
Rieman sounds like a place in Germany.
Re:$1,000,000 prize to be collected then if true (Score:4, Funny)
Step 1: Find 5-month old baby.
Step 2: Interrogate baby from step 1, asking questions relevant to the Riemann Hypothesis.
Step 3: Profit!
Progress so far:
Step 1: Complete.
Step 2: Complete. Reply to question consisted of: "Blah gurgle <splursh> gah hwooo naaae".
Step 3: Incomplete, but I have reduced the problem from one of Mathematics to one of Linguistics. I expect results soon.
Re:Yeah but did they point this out? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Dirty Words (Score:5, Funny)
You just gave me the best idea for an iPhone app:
Boobies that bounce according to how the phone is bouncing....
Wrong (Score:5, Funny)
No, it's elohlleh, pronounced "elO'-heh-luh", which in the Primitive Quendian proto-language used by the early Elves after their awakening by Eru Ilúvatar, roughly translates to "a dreary, oppressive, or unpleasant place".
Totally different.
Re:Tough problems (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Tried to RTFA (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Dirty Words (Score:3, Funny)
Re:typo (Score:5, Funny)
The Riemann zeta function is \zeta(s) = \sum_{n=1}^{\infty} \frac{1}{n^{s}} [written for LaTeX], or "the sum of 1/(n^s) as n goes from 0 to infinity (increasing by 1 repeatedly)" [in more human-readable form].
You have a slight typo. Should be: "... as n goes from 1 to infinity ..."
You have a slight typo. It should be: "You have a slight typo. It should be: ..."
Re:Numb3rs (Score:5, Funny)
Dude, you owe me a monitor.
Note to self: Do not drink coke while reading /.
Re:Yeah but did they point this out? (Score:2, Funny)
I read half of TFA...so that's 1/2 + i, which just happens to be on the critical line [wikipedia.org].
Re:Dirty Words (Score:5, Funny)
Re:not so fast (Score:2, Funny)
there are "proofs" of the Riemann hypothesis on the arXiv every few weeks. Don't believe it 'til it's vetted.
Who needs proof!
Do like Al Gore and declare,
"The debate on the Riemann Hypothesis is OVER!"
Re:Dirty Words (Score:3, Funny)
äOEæ--¥é..."ããï¼ï¼
Re:Dirty Words (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Tough problems (Score:1, Funny)
I carry something else to avoid reproducing.
Re:Tough problems (Score:3, Funny)
I carry something else to avoid reproducing.
A clipboard?
Re:Tried to RTFA (Score:5, Funny)
Thus, archaeologists are as anal about their 1 meter units (or even smaller units) as chemists are about their titrations (or whatever chemists do).
Last time I tried to get anal with my 1 meter unit, I damned near killed someone.
Re:Not quite right? (Score:3, Funny)
Or a 'variable' as it is also known.
Re:Yeah but did they point this out? (Score:5, Funny)
Come on, be real.
Re:Dirty Words (Score:5, Funny)
Does your project have donation page?
Re:Tried to RTFA (Score:2, Funny)
Great. Here comes the "intelligent arithmetic" movement.