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Nigerian scholar solves 156-year-old Mathematics problem, ‘Riemann Hypothesis’

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Blogspam.

Source is: http://www.vanguardngr.com/2015/11/nigerian-solves-156-yr-ol...

Source is incredibly dubious. Contains the following sentence:

  Dr. Enoch had previously designed a Prototype of a silo 
  for peasant farmers and also discovered a scientific 
  technique for detecting and tracking someone on an evil mission.

A Dr. Enoch Opeyemi is indeed on the schedule for ICMCS 2015, but the title of his talk was just "A Matrix That Generates the Point Spectral of the Riemann Zeta Function": http://computer.conference-site.com/program.docx I haven't been able to find the contents of that talk.

The CMI page for the problem hasn't been updated yet: http://www.claymath.org/millennium-problems/riemann-hypothes...

I haven't been able to find anything about a new proof of the Riemann Hypothesis in any of the usual places. (math.SE, etc)

> With this breakthrough, Dr Enoch, who teaches at the Federal University, Oye Ekiti, FUOYE, has become the fourth egghead to resolve one of the seven Millennium Problems in Mathematics.

Egghead? Is that... is that a term that's not considered as pejorative as it sounds in Nigeria?

Obviously this is fake news.

Looks legit --> http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p03891wc?ocid=socialflow_fac...

Story is a hoax is seems:

http://www.nairaland.com/2739995/opeyemi-enoch-not-solved-ri...

All who upvoted should be ashamed of themselves.

Bah, this is some sloppy writing.

> "Dr Enoch Opeyemi ... has become the fourth person in the world to resolve the Mathematics problem called the Riemann Hypothesis."

I think the accurate statement is below,

> "Only three people have been able to solve three out of the seven millennium problems in the past 16 years. Dr Enoch is the fourth."

Except they're the Millenium Prize problems: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millennium_Prize_Problems

Is there a less crappy source for this?

edit: Apparently, there's an abstract on page 8 of this PDF: http://computer.conference-site.com/proceedings_icmcs_2015.p... - which is hosted on what appears to be the conference website.

I am looking for a less crappy source and have not found one yet. Given that his proof was supposedly presented on November 11 and I haven't heard any mathematicians say anything about it, I'm not getting too excited yet.

> I think the accurate statement is below

>> "Only three people have been able to solve three out of the seven millennium problems in the past 16 years. Dr Enoch is the fourth."

Nope. They didn't even get that right. Only one of the seven has been solved (Poincaré conjecture).

So what's the answer? Are all the solutions on the real 1/2 line? Or is there a counterexample?

I'd say "claims to solve" would be a better title until we see a lot more analysis.

Out of instinct I first checked todays date to make sure it's not April 1st... Would expect a serious proof candidate to a have attracted much more attention in the media/internets. Anyone have more information?

Looks like there is a database error on their end.

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