is anyone familiar with the riemann hypothesis? i already have the equations--but what is the point?

Question

there is is a squiggley line in front of the sets & subsets --that ihave never seen before----explanation?

Answer 1

The Riemann Hypothesis is one of the biggest undetermined things in mathematical research these day. It's about whether the roots of certain complex equations all have real part 1/2. The point is that there's a wild connection to prime numbers and their distribution. For an application, prime numbers are critical for encoding information (like credit card numebrs) to be sent over the web. The Riemann Hypothesis even made an episode of Numb3rs...

Answer 2

You're probably looking at the Reimann Zeta Function. The squiggley is probably the lowercase greek letter zeta, ζ.

Answer 3

The book below is very readable. It's out in paperback. It gives several different points that these equations either have, or might have.

Answer 4

riemann hypothesis? thats calculus if i remember. there's no point to it, it basically helps you estimate the area under a curve. a squiggly line? it might mean "integral"