http://www.dibsblog.com/?p=16 Thu, 13 Nov 2014 01:48:50 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 http://www.dibsblog.com/?p=16#comment-935 Dibs! » Mathematical Community Greets Earth-Shattering Claims With Silence Fri, 06 Oct 2006 23:46:16 +0000 http://www.dibsblog.com/?p=16#comment-935 [...] In response to one of the very earliest Dibs! posts — a review of Dan Rockmore’s Stalking the Riemann Hypothesis — Dibs! has recently received an astonishing email from Jiang Chun-Xuan, a mathematician in China who claims to have disproved the legendarily difficult problem. Chun-Xuan included in his email a detailed mathematical paper (which you can view online in pdf form here) which purports to conclusively demonstrate that Riemann’s hypothesis is in fact false. Why did Chun-Xuan bother to notify a lowly literary blog of his epochal discovery? Therein lies a tale — and here the story starts to get even more mystifying. (If you’re wondering what the Reimann Hypothesis even is, click on the review of the Rockmore book above for an explanation.) [...]

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