Author: José de Jesús García Ruvalcaba
Date: 04:05:12 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 Or even better at: http://www.mathematik.uni-bielefeld.de/~kersten/hilbert/rede.html José.
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