{"id":192170,"date":"2024-07-02T06:22:51","date_gmt":"2024-07-02T11:22:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/07\/the-biggest-problem-in-mathematics-is-finally-a-step-closer-to-being-solved"},"modified":"2024-07-02T06:22:51","modified_gmt":"2024-07-02T11:22:51","slug":"the-biggest-problem-in-mathematics-is-finally-a-step-closer-to-being-solved","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/07\/the-biggest-problem-in-mathematics-is-finally-a-step-closer-to-being-solved","title":{"rendered":"The Biggest Problem in Mathematics Is Finally a Step Closer to Being Solved"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/the-biggest-problem-in-mathematics-is-finally-a-step-closer-to-being-solved2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Number theorists have been trying to prove a conjecture about the distribution of prime numbers for more than 160 years.<\/p>\n<p>By <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scientificamerican.com\/author\/manon-bischoff\/\">Manon Bischoff<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Riemann hypothesis is the most important open question in number theory\u2014if not all of mathematics. It has occupied experts for more than 160 years. And the problem appeared both in mathematician David Hilbert\u2019s groundbreaking speech from 1900 and among the \u201cMillennium Problems\u201d formulated a century later. The person who solves it will win a million-dollar prize.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Number theorists have been trying to prove a conjecture about the distribution of prime numbers for more than 160 years. By Manon Bischoff The Riemann hypothesis is the most important open question in number theory\u2014if not all of mathematics. It has occupied experts for more than 160 years. And the problem appeared both in mathematician [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2229],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-192170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mathematics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192170","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=192170"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192170\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}