Abstract: This
lecture is the
story of the Riemann Hypothesis.
It is likely the
most
compelling story of mathematics for a variety of reasons.
The story told here
is non
technical and represents a chronology of events and characters that
have made
the Riemann Hypothesis so compelling.
The main characters:
Eratosthenes, Euclid, Euler, Dirichlet, Gauss,
Legendre, Fourier, Dedekind, Riemann, Cauchy, Hadamard, Cayley, Hardy,
Hilbert,
Ramanujan, Polya, Dyson, Odlysko, and a whack of others.
Note: The smaller the font the less
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