Nigerian Solves 156-year Knotty Maths Hypothesis, Wins $1m – DailyPost Nigeria

Copying my comment on a similar submission yesterday https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10576562

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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)

Seems not: https://www.quora.com/Has-the-Riemann-Hypothesis-been-solved...

"He also once designed the prototype of a silo for peasant farmers and discovered a scientific technique for detecting and tracking someone on an evil mission."

I would be very curious to know how someone can detect that another is on an "evil mission". Or more specifically what his criteria for evil was.

Please stop upvoting these stories until more can be verified.

As of now, it seems to be a hoax: http://www.nairaland.com/2739995/opeyemi-enoch-not-solved-ri...

There are regular announcements to solutions of the Riemann Hypothesis (see arxiv). It's really not worth paying attention to until major mathematicians or the CMI itself says something.

Here's a short BBC audio interview with the Professor who claims to have solved the hypothesis. http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p03891wc. I still have my doubts though.

This shouldn't be on the front page of HN. In order to get a million dollars for one of the millenium problems one needs to have one's proof accepted by a peer reviewed journal and remain unchallenged (for two years I think). This clearly hasn't happened here.

Yesterday the same post without a source showed up.. What's going on lol? I don't believe this is real until I see a more trustworthy source.

To get the $1.000.000 (one million dollars) he just has to send a small amount of money to cover legal and administrative costs.

(sorry, it's good to hear (edit: if true...) that science is going strong in Nigeria)