Latest News: Riemann Hypothesis Proved?

Source: http://arxiv.org/abs/1402.5952

Recently, I saw on Arxiv (an online Math journal) that a professor from South-China Normal University, Mingchun Xu, has proved the notoriously difficult Riemann Hypothesis.

Quote: “By using a theorem of Hurwitz for the analytic functions and a theorem due to T.J.Stieltjes and I. Schur, the Riemann Hypothesis has been proved considering the alternating Riemann zeta function. “

His paper can be downloaded here: http://arxiv.org/pdf/1402.5952v2

More verification is needed to check if it is indeed a proof.

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