>Mathematicians could be on the verge of solving two separate million dollar
>problems. If they are right - still a big if - and somebody really has
>cracked the so-called Riemann hypothesis, financial disaster might follow.
>Suddenly all cryptic codes could be breakable. No internet transaction
>w
On Tue, Sep 07, 2004 at 09:29:49AM -0500, Matt Crawford wrote:
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> On Sep 6, 2004, at 21:52, R. A. Hettinga wrote:
>
> >But the proof should give us more understanding of how the
> >primes work, and therefore the proof might be translated into something
> >that might produce this prime spectrome
On Mon, Sep 06, 2004 at 08:52:39PM -0600, R. A. Hettinga wrote:
> "The whole of e-commerce depends on prime numbers. I have described the
> primes as atoms: what mathematicians are missing is a kind of mathematical
> prime spectrometer. Chemists have a machine that, if you give it a
> molecule, w
On Sep 6, 2004, at 21:52, R. A. Hettinga wrote:
But the proof should give us more understanding of how the
primes work, and therefore the proof might be translated into something
that might produce this prime spectrometer. If it does, it will bring
the
whole of e-commerce to its knees, overnight.
