Author: C McClain Morris, Jr.
Date: 03:30:46 12/02/03
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On December 02, 2003 at 06:13:49, Tord Romstad wrote: >On December 02, 2003 at 05:58:10, C McClain Morris, Jr. wrote: > >>Reimann's hypothesis has been solved by a student at Stockholm University. I >>think this was Hilbert's 8th problem. Is the 1 million dollar prize for solving >>the the remaining unsolved Hilbert problems still being offered? > >I suspect that this is a misunderstanding on your part. A few days ago, there >was a report that a student at Stockholm's University had solved a special >case of Hilbert's 16th problem, and asserted that the methods used should >also be sufficient to solve the general problem. It has later been reported >that there were gaps in the proof, and I am not sure what the current status >of the problem is. > >Hilbert's 16th problem is completely unrelated to Riemann's hypothesis (which, >as you say, is the 8th problem). Although it is not entirely impossible that >another student at Stockholm's University has solved the Riemann hypothesis >and I haven't heard about it yet, it seems rather unlikely that two Swedish >students have solved (or almost solved) two of the remaining Hilbert problems >within a few days. > >Hilbert's article containing the problems can be found at the following >URL: > >http://aleph0.clarku.edu/~djoyce/hilbert/problems.html > >Tord The article I read stated that the student's proof was to be published soon (referring to Artin's conjecture), and no way relating Hilbert's 8th problem to Hilbert's 16th, relating to real algebraic curves and surfaces. Perhaps the article I read misinformed me regarding the above. I still stand corrected, thanks.
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