This afternoon as I was browsing Nairaland, I saw a post that claimed a Nigerian solved a 156-year-old mathematical problem. Naturally my curiousity was piqued and I clicked on the thread.

The post (which can be found on the front page) claims that a Dr Enoch Opeyemi "solved" the Riemann Hypothesis.
That was the first red flag: you either prove or disprove a conjecture, either way I chalked it up to bad reportage.

The article also said the "proof" was presented at the ICMS in Vienna on the 11th, which was weird as I didn't see any publication since then, moreover researching the ICMS that held on the 11th I found out that the lecturer's presentation is titled: "A matrix that generates the point spectral of the Riemann Zeta function" and mentions no proof of the Riemann Hypothesis.

“He also showed how other problems of this kind can be formulated and obtained the matrix that Hilbert and Poly predicted will give these undiscovered solutions. He revealed how these solutions are applicable in cryptography, quantum information science and in quantum computers,” it stated.

First I haven't heard of any mathematician named Poly,the closest I got was George Polya, who didn't work on the Riemann Hypothesis.

Also a proof of the hypothesis does not affect cryptography in any way. Merely knowing if the Riemann Hypothesis holds or not doesn't help you construct any factorization method (although it can tell you a theoretical bound on how well a certain algorithm can run).

Dr Enoch had previously designed a Prototype of a silo for peasant farmers and also discovered a scientific technique for detecting and tracking someone on an evil mission.

When I read that line I concluded that the news was most likely satirical.

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When I read the last past in bold letters, I exited the thread

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Googling the Riemann Hypothesis brought no other source for the so called proof apart from Vanguard (which is a deplorable news source and should not be taken seriously) and various blogs that copy-pasted the Vanguard article,some with their own spin: some even claimed the lecturer was offered a billion dollars for the proof.

I searched for arXiv and other journal sites for the peer-reviewed paper he wrote and only found this: http://www.academia.edu/1188935/Proof_of_the_Riemann_hypothesis

First Academia is not a site for journals but an academic networking site,
Also after perusing the "proof" I found that it was actually the work of a German professor, Werner Raab titled "The Truth Of The Riemann Hypothesis"
That's the citation of the paper in case anyone's interested:
Raab, W., 2013. The Truth of the Riemann Hypothesis. Open Science Repository Mathematics, Online(open-access), p.e70081985. Available at: http://www.open-science-repository.com/mathematics-70081985.html.


-The Clay Institute that offers the prize shows nothing about a proof.
-There is literally no international media reporting the story, the only source is Vanguard and blogs that plagiarise the Vanguard post.
-The "proof" the professor offers is actually the work of a German professor in which he changes the name from "The truth of the Riemann Hypothesis" to "Proof of the Riemann Hypothesis"

I implore the super moderators of nairaland to remove the erroneous post from the front page and stop giving attention to a charlatan.
cc Lalasticlala, Obinoscopy, Dominique.

Mehnnnnn........... This post would have been more impactful to me if I actually know what the Reiman's hypothesis is.


BTW, do you think Machines can think Like Turing's test..

People could have done some googling and unearth this false claims but they didn't, most times people believe things because they want them to be true, you'll be surprised that most of them will not even click on this thread.

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Karmanaut:
This afternoon as I was browsing Nairaland, I saw a post that claimed a Nigerian solved a 156-year-old mathematical problem. Naturally my curiousity was piqued and I clicked on the thread.

The post (which can be found on the front page) claims that a Dr Enoch Opeyemi "solved" the Riemann Hypothesis.
That was the first red flag: you either prove or disprove a conjecture, either way I chalked it up to bad reportage.

The article also said the "proof" was presented at the ICMS in Vienna on the 11th, which was weird as I didn't see any publication since then, moreover researching the ICMS that held on the 11th I found out that the lecturer's presentation is titled: "A matrix that generates the point spectral of the Riemann Zeta function" and mentions no proof of the Riemann Hypothesis.


First I haven't heard of any mathematician named Poly,the closest I got was George Polya, who didn't work on the Riemann Hypothesis.

Also a proof of the hypothesis does not affect cryptography in any way. Merely knowing if the Riemann Hypothesis holds or not doesn't help you construct any factorization method (although it can tell you a theoretical bound on how well a certain algorithm can run).


When I read that line I concluded that the news was most likely satirical.

#facts. Untold stories

Some people think that Riemann hypothesis is one plus one, if Dr. Enoch had proved the Riemann hypothesis, it will be in major news. Riemann hypothesis is one of the most important unsolved mathematics problem, even the billionaire mathematician James Harris Simons said in an interview by numberphile (it's on YouTube) that he would trade some of his wealth to be the mathematician that solve the Riemann hypothesis. A Kazakh mathematician early last year claimed to have solved the Navier-stokes equation, I think his name is Prof. Otalbyev(not sure of the spelling), until the proof was rebuffed by another mathematician Terence Tao when he spotted a mistake in the published proof by the professor.

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This whole thing is confusing. What is Reimann hypothesis

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First published in Riemann's groundbreaking 1859 paper (Riemann 1859), the Riemann hypothesis is a deep mathematical conjecture which states that the nontrivial Riemann zeta function zeros, i.e., the values of s other than -2, -4, -6, ... such that zeta(s)=0 (where zeta(s) is the Riemann zeta function) all lie on the "critical line" sigma=R[s]=1/2 (where R[s] denotes the real part of s). why would somebody even establish this kind of life threatening "sturvs"

The problem is with the media, they can't tell what is fact from what is noise. Tell them you discovered a new planet, they will start filling the internet with praises like 'Isaac Newton of Nigeria' etc.



Lalasticlala

That last line though.

Thats fiction.

.

As a Nigerian student living in d United states. I was almost tempted to share d thisday link I came across online. I was so excited to share for my.American friends who believes nothing good comes out of africa.
However, I quickly reminded myself, this is nigeria & I do be making a fool of myself without verifying d source of this news. I went online and it is a shame that only nigerian dailies and blogs have news on such an important international achievement. That was when it dawned on me that this is another joke coming out of my country.
However, reading the last paragraph of the nation's newspaper, I can it was a satire not perfectly coined.

God bless you oh!! I said this same thing on the other thread, and some people that dont like thinking were ready to swallow me!!

Riemann hypothesis solved and its only vanguard and osundefender that knows about it!!! Nothing on BBC, CNN or even The Clay Institue themselves .Very funny, hilarious sh!t

and to think they were already fighting on South West and The yEAST!!! Stupidity is commonplace in this country.

Karmanaut:
I implore the super moderators of nairaland to remove the erroneous post from the front page and stop giving attention to a charlatan.
cc Lalasticlala, Obinoscopy, Dominique.

Good luck with that! Nairaland has really gone down the toilet these days. It's full of trolls, tribalists, religious nuts and moröns. And the mods are hardly doing anything to control the level of rêtardation.

That's why I hardly come here any more.

BBC Africa is reporting it: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p03891wc?ocid=socialflow_facebook


quote author=EvilBrain1 post=40098650]

Good luck with that! Nairaland has really gone down the toilet these days. It's full of trolls, tribalists, religious nuts and moröns. And the mods are hardly doing anything to control the level of rêtardation.

That's why I hardly come here any more.[/quote]

BBC Africa is reporting it:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p03891wc?ocid=socialflow_facebook



quote author=exxell post=40067802]I also googled and researched on the so called proof and no major site or tabloid carried the news. I doubt the Mods or Lalasticlala will take this to front page

Nairaland..... Exploiting and misinforming the gullible Nigerians since 2005!!

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Found a source on bbc.,

www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p03891wc

A maths problem, which
has gone more than 150
years without a solution,
has finally been solved by
Nigerian academic Dr.
Opeyemi Enoch. The Riemann Hypothesis was
first proposed by
Bernhard Riemann in 1859.
As the first person to
provide a solution, Dr.
Enoch has scooped a million dollar prize.
Source: BBC.

They are good with numbers. Am impressed.

It is a shame we don't have faith in our own thing till the white man says yes to it.

zombi generation..

1stknight:
Some people think that Riemann hypothesis is one plus one, if Dr. Enoch had proved the Riemann hypothesis, it will be in major news. Riemann hypothesis is one of the most important unsolved mathematics problem, even the billionaire mathematician James Harris Simons said in an interview by numberphile (it's on YouTube) that he would trade some of his wealth to be the mathematician that solve the Riemann hypothesis. A Kazakh mathematician early last year claimed to have solved the Navier-stokes equation, I think his name is Prof. Otalbyev(not sure of the spelling), until the proof was rebuffed by another mathematician Terence Tao when he spotted a mistake in the published proof by the professor.

How come u've suddenly gone mute?

400billionman:
That last line though.

Thats fiction.

still a fiction?

femoric9:
As a Nigerian student living in d United states. I was almost tempted to share d thisday link I came across online. I was so excited to share for my.American friends who believes nothing good comes out of africa.
However, I quickly reminded myself, this is nigeria & I do be making a fool of myself without verifying d source of this news. I went online and it is a shame that only nigerian dailies and blogs have news on such an important international achievement. That was when it dawned on me that this is another joke coming out of my country.
However, reading the last paragraph of the nation's newspaper, I can it was a satire not perfectly coined.

My brother, u can now break the news and celebrate ur country..