A Nigerian dismantled a 150 years old mathematics!
A Nigerian professor has reportedly solved a maths problem that has confounded mathematicians for over 150 years, scooping himself US$1 million in the process
It’s known as the Riemann Hypothesis; a complicated mathematical problem involving the representation of complex numbers, real and complex functions on axes.
For 156 years it remained unsolved until Dr Opeyemi Enoch of Federal University, Oye-Ekiti came along. On November 11, at the International Conference on Mathematics and Computer Science in Vienna, Austria, he reportedly presented his Proof in front of his peers 156 years to the day since the problem was first proposed by Bernhard Riemann.
According to the Vanguard, “Dr Enoch first investigated and then established the claims of Riemann. He went on to Consider and to correct the misconceptions that were communicated by Mathematicians in the past generations, thus paving way for his solutions and proofs to be established.
“He also showed how other problems of this kind can be formulated and obtained the matrix that Hilbert and Poly predicted will give these undiscovered solutions. He revealed how these solutions are applicable in cryptography, quantum information science and in quantum computers,” it stated.
Dr Enoch becomes the fourth academic to solve one of the seven Millenium Problems set out by the Clay Mathematics Institute. Solving one of these problems comes with a US$1 million reward.
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