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Riemann Hypothesis

....what is the significance of it?

Im a med student, not a mathematician- but Ive seen it bandied around recently, and hailed as one of the most important unresolved mathematical issues....why is this?
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Malsy
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i'm not a mathematician either and feel the right to subscribe :biggrin:
Its basicaly saying that theres an underlieing distribution to the prime numbers and that its not just random.
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nuodai
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Because whoever solves it first gets $1,000,000!

(I believe it has significance in terms of the distribution of primes and suchlike.)
Someone mentioned it in the wiki 2050 thread- which I recommend if you haven't looked at it yet (it's in G&D).
Simplicity is going to solve so it must be extremely fundamental.

Spoiler

the was mentioned in beautiful mind the other day XD

great film
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v-zero
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Electric_Dreams
Someone mentioned it in the wiki 2050 thread- which I recommend if you haven't looked at it yet (it's in G&D).

It was meeeeeee.

Basically it is the hypothesis that all the non trivial zero's of the Riemann zeta function lie along the critical line (real part 0.5), this gets tied into the distribution of the primes and boom, it's important. There are a host of mathematical results that rely on its accuracy, so a proof would be the holy grail of maths.
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qgujxj39
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I mentioned it in the wiki thread too :five:

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