Riemann Hypothesis: Michael Atiyah Claims to Have Solved One of Math's Greatest Mysteries Published Oct 01, 2018 at 8:14 AM EDT Updated Oct 01, 2018 at 11:08 AM EDT Stock photo of a blackboard.

A retired mathematician claims he has solved a 160-year-old math problem called the Riemann hypothesis, which could net a prize of $1 million.

Mathematician Sir Michael Atiyah claimed he solved the "most important open problem" in maths, the Riemann hypothesis. At a lecture in Germany on Monday he presented his solution, which needs to ...

Michael Atiyah, a British mathematician who united mathematics and physics during the 1960s in a way not seen since the days of Isaac Newton, died on Friday. He was 89. The Royal Society in London ...

Michael Atiyah claims to have found a proof for the Riemann hypothesis One of the most famous unsolved problems in mathematics likely remains unsolved. At a hotly-anticipated talk at the ...

Atiyah solves (i.e. proves) the Riemann hypothesis by “contradiction,” a kind of proof that involves assuming the problem at hand is untrue, and trying to prove it by showing that these ...

If Atiyah is right about his proof, he could claim a $1 million prize set aside in 2000 for the first person to prove the hypothesis. A proof of Riemann, which would provide a sort of "map" of ...

Michael Atiyah claims to have found a proof of the Riemann hypothesis One of the most important unsolved problems in mathematics may have been solved, retired mathematician Michael Atiyah is set ...

Despite Michael Atiyah’s many accolades — he is a winner of both the Fields and the Abel prizes for mathematics; a past president of the Royal Society of London, the oldest scientific society in the ...

At 86, Britain’s preeminent mathematical matchmaker is still tackling the big questions and dreaming of a union between the quantum and the gravitational forces.