BBC NEWS | Science/Nature: "The Riemann Hypothesis is a highly complex theory about the nature of prime numbers - those numbers divisible only by 1 and themselves. It has defeated mathematicians since 1859 when Bernhard Riemann published a conjecture about how prime numbers were distributed amongst other numbers. Since then the problem has attracted a cult following among mathematicians, but after nearly 150 years no one has ever definitively proven Riemann's theory to be either true or false. "
Friday, June 11, 2004
Greatest maths problem 'solved'
BBC NEWS | Science/Nature: "The Riemann Hypothesis is a highly complex theory about the nature of prime numbers - those numbers divisible only by 1 and themselves. It has defeated mathematicians since 1859 when Bernhard Riemann published a conjecture about how prime numbers were distributed amongst other numbers. Since then the problem has attracted a cult following among mathematicians, but after nearly 150 years no one has ever definitively proven Riemann's theory to be either true or false. "
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