IF I ONLY HAD A BRAIN :

143-Year-Old Problem Still Has Mathematicians Guessing (BRUCE SCHECHTER, July 2, 2002, NY Times)

The Riemann hypothesis, first tossed off by Bernhard Riemann in 1859 in a paper about the distribution of prime numbers, is still widely considered to be one of the greatest unsolved problems in mathematics, sure to wreath its conqueror with glory--and, incidentally, lots of cash. Two years ago, to celebrate the millennium, the Clay Mathematics Institute announced an award of a million dollars for a proof (or refutation) of the hypothesis.

Huh? Posted by Orrin Judd at July 2, 2002 6:28 PM