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Volpe
on Aug 27, 2012
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Mathematical Challenges
> Mathematical Challenge 19: Settle the Riemann Hypothesis The Holy Grail of number theory.
Described to me by a number theorist as: "That's where number theorists go to die".
masterzora
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To be fair that was pretty much the same thing said about Fermat's Last Hypothesis until Wiles got cheeky in 1994 and made a hundred-page margin.
toomuchcoffee
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...or where the field will be reborn, once they come up with the appropriate definitions that make this problem tractable.
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Described to me by a number theorist as: "That's where number theorists go to die".