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Comment by azeirah | Hacker News Reader

I don't know any math, but I did quickly check who this author is.

He's some guy with no credentials, graduated as an accountant. Clearly has a knack for math and is not terrible at it (mathoverflow), but otherwise has no social credit supporting his credibility (twitter, LinkedIn).

Doesn't mean he's necessarily wrong, maybe he got it. It's not impossible that he's some kind of contemporary Ramanujan, but yeah.. unlikely.

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"He's some guy with no credentials, working at the Swiss Patent Office in Bern. Clearly has a knack for physics and is not terrible at it (physics teaching diploma), but otherwise has no social credit supporting his credibility (Nature, Knowledge)."

Someone did a review of his previous work on Riemann hypothesis [1]. Not into this field, but apparently that blog is being run by someone credible [2]. I have found a link to [1] via this forum [3].

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20220128195023/https://motls.blo...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lubo%C5%A1_Motl

[3] https://www.scienceforums.net/topic/124368-has-the-riemann-h...

This was a review of the author's earlier paper of 2018, in which they were actually claiming a proof of RH.

On their arXiv page: https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.12546, the author states that "though all my previous proposed (dis)proofs were flawed, i think the flaws pointed me towards the right direction."

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