Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. So what? Riemann was interested in the distribution of prime numbers and he discovered a formula for the number of primes less ...

The Riemann Hypothesis, a central unsolved problem in mathematics, posits that all non-trivial zeros of the Riemann zeta function lie on the critical line in the complex plane. This conjecture is not ...

The Riemann Hypothesis remains one of mathematics’ most enduring and influential conjectures, proposing that all nontrivial zeros of the Riemann zeta function lie on the critical line where the real ...

The Riemann hypothesis, first proposed by German mathematician Bernhard Riemann in 1859, is considered to be one of the hardest and most important unsolved problems of pure mathematics — the study of ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Sometimes mathematicians try to tackle a problem head on, and sometimes they come at it sideways. That’s especially true when the ...

In the article, Giuseppe Mussardo and Andrè Leclair showed that there is instead an elegant explanation of the alignment of zeros along the ½ axis of the Riemann function (as well as of infinite ...

Numbers like pi, e and phi often turn up in unexpected places in science and mathematics. Pascal's triangle and the Fibonacci sequence also seem inexplicably widespread in nature. Then there's the ...

A famed mathematical enigma is once again in the spotlight. The Riemann hypothesis, posited in 1859 by German mathematician Bernhard Riemann, is one of the biggest unsolved puzzles in mathematics. The ...

Prime numbers are maddeningly capricious. They clump together like buddies on some regions of the number line, but in other areas, nary a prime can be found. So number theorists can’t even roughly ...

The Riemann hypothesis is the most important open question in number theory—if not all of mathematics. It has occupied experts for more than 160 years. And the problem appeared both in mathematician ...