This has already been disproven via a counterexample. The paper is from last year, and was disproven last year. Why the news services are picking up on an old, known-wrong proof is a mystery. --Ed Pegg Jr. On Wed, 9 Jun 2004 17:57:59 -0600, Schroeppel, Richard <rschroe@sandia.gov> wrote:

Louis DeBranges is claiming a proof of the Riemann Hypothesis. There's a news release from Purdue.

His web page: http://www.math.purdue.edu/~branges/

The paper (124 pages) http://www.math.purdue.edu/ftp_pub/branges/riemannzeta.pdf

There's also something called "Apology" which seems to be a mix of biography and overview. At least it's shorter. I've downloaded both, and skimmed the Apology. Frankly, it's not much of an apology. It's full of weighting functions and Hankel transforms. He hopes to use the prize to restore an ancestral residence in France.

Old timers will recall that LDB presented an incorrect proof of the Bieberbach Conjecture in the 1970s, and then had incredible trouble getting a correct proof accepted in the early 1980s. (It was long, and noone would read it.) Another side of the "difficult proof" coin.

Rich rcs@cs.arizona.edu

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