Is the Riemann Hypothesis true?

[PpPete]

I'm afraid I'm going to invoke the Wittgenstein interruptor in its original, pure form:
Wovon man nicht sprechen kann, darüber muss man schweigen

Oh do shut up !

 

[Red Light]

Oh do shut up !

 

[Thomk]

Bearing in mind that the first 10 billion zeros are on the critical line it seems likely that is is true.

I should just like to add that the previous statement means absolutely nothing to me.

I'm sorry to say that the first few billion zeros being on the line amounts to about zero evidence in support of the conjecture that they all are. It has already been proved that an infinite amount of zeros are on the critical line but that doesn't get us much closer either.

 

[Thomk]

Oh do shut up !

 

[Thomk]

I proved it last week, but it changed nothing except that damn Nobel Prize committee started bothering me again, they're worse than Jehovah's Witnesses... So, no it doesn't matter.

I know you are making that up.
a) Because you are a gorilla
b) Because everyone knows it does matter
c) And this is the clincher. There is no Nobel Prize for maths. Top maths bods receive the Fields Medal instead

 

[TVC]

I know you are making that up.
a) Because you are a gorilla It's a fair cop
b) Because everyone knows it does matter To you perhaps, to me, no.
c) And this is the clincher. There is no Nobel Prize for maths. Top maths bods receive the Fields Medal instead Smarty pants

 

[colly]

I'm sorry to say that the first few billion zeros being on the line amounts to about zero evidence in support of the conjecture that they all are. It has already been proved that an infinite amount of zeros are on the critical line but that doesn't get us much closer either.

I tend to agree with that in general, but in the overall scheme of things, given that it takes more than one slip twixt cup and lip to put a real bird in any hypothetical bush, the likelyhood of the feathers of the said bird being alike to another is pretty much unity.

 

[rollinstok]

I used to be a little uncertain about this, but now I'm not so sure.

 

[Red Light]

Has anyone solved the hypothesis yet? I've just finished this week's Beano crossword.

Yes its an anagram of Pithy Shoes (5,5)

 

[Archie_tect]

Now, an infinite number of zeros approaching zero but not zero, may excite a pure maths enthusiast but to the rest of us... it's close enough.... in fact 0.0001 is near enough zero for me. I work in an industry where +/- 1mm is considered fine tolerance. +/- 5mm for a brick!!!

 

[Red Light]

I work in an industry where +/- 1mm is considered fine tolerance. +/- 5mm for a brick!!!

You're a London cab driver?

 

[Thomk]

Now, an infinite number of zeros approaching zero but not zero, may excite a pure maths enthusiast but to the rest of us... it's close enough.... in fact 0.0001 is near enough zero for me. I work in an industry where +/- 1mm is considered fine tolerance. +/- 5mm for a brick!!!

Beware!!!
Related to the Riemann Hypothesis is The Mertens Conjecture (look it up on Wiki if interested). The evidence supporting it seemed overwhelming to the layman until it was disproved in 1985. The first couterexamples were proved to be somewhere before a region of numbers so far away that it is beyond imagination - exp(3.21×1064). The proof has been improved a bit since then but the point is still valid.

 

[Profpointy]

I proved it last week, but it changed nothing except that damn Nobel Prize committee started bothering me again, they're worse than Jehovah's Witnesses... So, no it doesn't matter.

... Now we know you're fibbing - there's no Nobel Prize for maths ! It's a shame as I'm no longer elligable for the Fields Medal as I'm over forty - s'pose I'll just have to settle for Mr Clay's million dollars. Mind you Perelman russian bloke who solved the Poincarre conjecture couldn't even be arsed to pick up his million dollars !

 

[Thomk]

... Now we know you're fibbing - there's no Nobel Prize for maths ! It's a shame as I'm no longer elligable for the Fields Medal as I'm over forty - s'pose I'll just have to settle for Mr Clay's million dollars. Mind you Perelman russian bloke who solved the Poincarre conjecture couldn't even be arsed to pick up his million dollars !

Smarty pants!

 

[Red Light]

It's a shame as I'm no longer elligable for the Fields Medal as I'm over forty - s'pose I'll just have to settle for Mr Clay's million dollars.

Let me know if you crack it Prof and I'll put in a good word for you. I know Landon quite well.