Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. Over the past few days, the mathematics world has been abuzz over the news that Sir Michael Atiyah, the famous Fields ...

The 90-year-old mathematician Michael Atiyah has presented what he referred to as a "simple proof" of the Riemann hypothesis, a problem which has eluded mathematicians for almost 160 years. The world ...

A top mathematician has claimed that he has the answer to the Riemann Hypothesis, a 160-year-old puzzle worth $1 million. In a lecture on Monday, Sept. 24, at the Heidelberg Laureate Forum in Germany, ...

Many ways to approach the Riemann Hypothesis have been proposed during the past 150 years, but none of them have led to conquering the most famous open problem in mathematics. A new article suggests ...

Yitang Zhang, a number theorist at the University of California, Santa Barbara, has posted a paper on arXiv that hints at the possibility that he may have solved the Landau-Siegel zeros conjecture.

Many ways to approach the Riemann Hypothesis have been proposed during the past 150 years, but none of them have led to conquering the most famous open problem in mathematics. A new paper in the ...