‘Sensational’ Proof Delivers New Insights Into Prime Numbers – Quanta Magazine https://www.quantamagazine.org Illuminating science Mon, 16 Sep 2024 14:10:47 -0400 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.2 ‘Sensational’ Proof Delivers New Insights Into Prime Numbers https://www.quantamagazine.org/sensational-proof-delivers-new-insights-into-prime-numbers-20240715/ https://www.quantamagazine.org/sensational-proof-delivers-new-insights-into-prime-numbers-20240715/#respond Mon, 15 Jul 2024 13:55:18 +0000 https://www.quantamagazine.org/?p=139099 The post ‘Sensational’ Proof Delivers New Insights Into Prime Numbers first appeared on Quanta Magazine

]]> Sometimes mathematicians try to tackle a problem head on, and sometimes they come at it sideways. That’s especially true when the mathematical stakes are high, as with the Riemann hypothesis, whose solution comes with a $1 million reward from the Clay Mathematics Institute. Its proof would give mathematicians much deeper certainty about how prime numbers are distributed, while also implying a host...

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