the Riemann hypothesis was, on Monday, (apparently) disproved?
I confess I haven’t followed the argument through its long night of lemmas, and have no intention of doing so, but if yesterday my accountant and erstwhile bookmaker had pressed me “Yo, Berian, wanna lay down some large on the RH cutting sick long term?”, I would have said “And how.” There are plenty of results that use the Riemann hypothesis as a plank, and clearly the weight of opinion is that its proof is a matter of time.
Or not. The preprint’s author is Tribikram Pati, a retired professor of mathematics whose contributions to harmonic analysis I could only understate. If there isn’t a press release in the next few days, I hope some mathematician bloggers will get their funk out for the little people, by which I mean me.
[Thanks to Julia Haggis the Sheep for the heads up, though see above comment re: blogging this topic.]
