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Mathematician who solved prime-number riddle claims new breakthrough

After shocking the mathematics community with a major result in 2013, Yitang Zhang now says he has solved an analogue of the celebrated Riemann hypothesis.
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A mathematician who went from obscurity to luminary status in 2013 for cracking a century-old question about prime numbers now claims to have solved another. The problem is similar to — but distinct from — the Riemann hypothesis, which is considered one of the most important problems in mathematics.

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Nature 611, 645-646 (2022)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-022-03689-2

Updates & Corrections

  • Correction 14 November 2022: This article has been amended to clarify that the formula Zhang claims to have proved is not the Landau-Siegel zeros conjecture, but a weaker version of it.

References

  1. Zhang, Y. Preprint at https://arxiv.org/abs/2211.02515 (2022).

  2. Zhang, Y. Preprint at https://arxiv.org/abs/0705.4306 (2007).

  3. Zhang, Y. Ann. Math. 179, 1121–1174 (2014).

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