Mathematical Physicist K Easwaran Claims To Have Found Proof Of 161-Year-Old Unsolved Riemann Hypothesis

Hyderabad-based mathematical physicist Kumar Easwaran claims to have found the proof of the Reimann Hypothesis (RH), which is a mathematical problem that has been unsolved for the last 161 years.

The RH helps in counting of prime numbers and provides a method for generating large random numbers.

Back in 2000, the Clay Mathematics Institute of Cambridge, Mass, USA had designated the RH to be a millennium problem and even announced a reward of $1 million for discovering its solution.

Kumar Easwaran, practicing at Sreenidhi Institute of Science and Technology, had put his research named ‘the final and exhaustive proof of the Riemann Hypothesis from first principles’ on the internet about five years ago.

However, international journal editors were largely reluctant to put the paper through a detailed peer review. But, following thousands of downloads on the internet, an expert panel of eight mathematicians and theoretical physicists was formed last year to study the proof developed by Easwaran.

Over 1200 mathematicians were called to take part in the an open review for a thoroughly transparent review of the same. Seven international scholars replied back in time and their comments along with the author’s responses were studied before the committee deemed Easwaran’s proof to be correct.

“The author’s analysis is exhaustive, unambiguous and every step in the analysis is explained in great detail and established. The conclusions of the author and his result must therefore be considered proven,” M Seetharaman, previously associated with the theoretical physics department at the University of Madras and one of the reviewers of Easwaran’s proof, was quoted in a report by the Times of India.