Christoph Aistleitner, mathematician at TU Graz, is hot on the trail of vital information on the mystery of prime numbers.
Christoph Aistleitner is hot on the trail of vital information on the mystery of prime numbers - and the world of mathematics is sitting up and taking notice. He has also received the Province of Styria's research prize for his work. For millennia, mathematicians have been fascinated by prime numbers - numbers, such as 2, 3, 5, 7 and so on, which are only divisible by themselves and one (4 and 6, for instance, are not prime numbers). Every whole number can be expressed as a product of prime numbers, so in a sense, prime numbers are the building blocks of which all other numbers are comprised. The Riemann zeta (?) function provides mathematicians with a host of key information about prime numbers. The Riemann hypothesis, a conjecture about the positions at which the value of the zeta function is zero, has been considered the greatest unresolved problem in mathematics for more than a century. Although many of the world's brightest mathematical minds are working on proving the hypothesis, and the Clay Mathematics Institute has offered prize money of USD 1 million to the first person to crack it, there is still no solution in sight.
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