After shocking the mathematics community with a major result in 2013, Yitang Zhang now says he has solved an analog of the celebrated Riemann hypothesis
After shocking the mathematics community with a major result in 2013, Yitang Zhang now says he has solved an analogue of the celebrated Riemann hypothesis. A mathematician who went from obscurity to luminary status in 2013 for cracking a.
The usually solitary, hermetic world of mathematics has begun to buzz – thanks to an unassuming Chinese-born mathematician with a reputation for solving the unsolvable. Sixty-seven-year-old Yitang Zhang may have taken a key step towards understanding the most important unsolved problem in mathematics, a problem that has vexed academics for more than a century. More than 20 years ago, Zhang,.