Thoughts on the Riemann hypothesis

DOI10.1007/BF02985392zbMATH Open1186.11050arXivmath/0306042MaRDI QIDQ972571FDOQ972571

Gregory J. Chaitin

Publication date: 21 May 2010

Published in: The Mathematical Intelligencer (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: The simultaneous appearance in May 2003 of four books on the Riemann hypothesis (RH) provoked these reflections. We briefly discuss whether the RH should be added as a new axiom, or whether a proof of the RH might involve the notion of randomness.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0306042

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Philosophical and critical aspects of logic and foundations (03A05) Nonreal zeros of (zeta (s)) and (L(s, chi)); Riemann and other hypotheses (11M26) Decidability (number-theoretic aspects) (11U05)

Cites Work

• Information-Theoretic Limitations of Formal Systems

Cited In (3)

• Towards a generic view of primality through multiset decompositions of natural numbers
• Emulating Primality with Multiset Representations of Natural Numbers
• FRACTAL SUPERSYMMETRIC QM, GEOMETRIC PROBABILITY AND THE RIEMANN HYPOTHESIS

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