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On the Riemann Hypothesis as Antidote

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posted on 2017-09-20, 20:29 authored by John SmithJohn Smith
In November of 1859, 2 highly influential works were published. One was a 500 page book entitled "On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life" by Charles Darwin, the other was an 8 page paper by Bernhard Riemann entitled "On the Prime Numbers Less Than a Given Quantity". On the face of it, they are unrelated, but it is a great irony that the central idea of Darwin's work (Evolution) is contradicted by the central idea of Riemann's work (The Riemann Hypothesis). In this note, the nature of the contradiction arising from the RH is outlined, and it is argued that Riemann got the better of the unintentional but historic dispute.

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