H/T to Nalini Joshi yesterday 2 days ago, for tweeting the above bag of Anthony’s gluten-free, almond flour. You get the feeling that Anthony, at heart, is a frustrated mathematician-wannabe… the lower left corner of the bag reads as follows:
“For a free bag on us, and a personal high five from Anthony, prove that the real part of every nontrivial zero of the function below is equal to 1/2”
:)))
[no mention that with the $1 million in prize money you'd receive for proving the Riemann hypothesis you could purchase several dozen bags of Anthony’s fine flour AND have money left over for coffee (even expresso).]
Further, in the comments to Nalini’s tweet someone mentions that a new attempt to prove the RH was recently submitted to arXiv:
So seriously let us know what if any status that submission has.
Finally, drawing again from the David Wells' book that I mentioned yesterday ("The Penguin Book of Curious and Interesting Mathematics") a couple of old quotes from David Hilbert:
Upon being asked "What technological achievement would be the most important?" Hilbert replied, "To catch a fly on the moon. Because the auxiliary technical problems which would have to be solved for such a result to be achieved imply the solution of almost all the material difficulties of mankind."
Then asked what mathematical problem was the most important, he responded, "The problem of the zeros of the zeta function, not only in mathematics, but absolutely most important!"
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