I need a “Explain like I’m 5” for Landau--Siegel zeros.
This sounds like a hard task as I couldn’t find anything online that does it :(
Monumental (if correct) advance in number theory posted to ArXiv by Yitang Zhang
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Re: Monumental (if correct) advance in number theory posted to ArXiv by Yitang Zhang
#82Flicking through this paper is very humbling and awe-inspiring. Having studied in this field when I was younger, I have just enough understanding to appreciate the insane amount of thought represented here. Kudos.
Re: Monumental (if correct) advance in number theory posted to ArXiv by Yitang Zhang
#83There was a scientist who did his best stuff while he was working as a patent clerk.
Ironically he didn't patent E=MC^2 and now everyone says it scot-free.
Re: Monumental (if correct) advance in number theory posted to ArXiv by Yitang Zhang
#84I'm not a mathematician, but the story of Yitang Zhang desperately makes me want this paper to be correct. > Prior to getting back to academia, he worked for several years as an accountant and a delivery worker for a New York City restaurant. He also worked in a motel in Kentucky and in a Subway sandwich shop. A profile published in the Quanta Magazine reports that Zhang used to live in his car during the initial job…
Douglas Prasher who cloned the green fluorescent protein became a courtesy cab driver at a dealership, until he was brought back to the lab by Roger Tsien.
https://www.discovermagazine.com/mind/how-bad-luck-and-bad-n...
Re: Monumental (if correct) advance in number theory posted to ArXiv by Yitang Zhang
#85Aw man we need a SoME2 video about this breakthrough https://youtu.be/cDofhN-RJqg
Re: Monumental (if correct) advance in number theory posted to ArXiv by Yitang Zhang
#86> To give a sense of the scale of this claim: If correct, Zhang's work is the most significant progress towards the Generalized Riemann Hypothesis in a century. Thanks, that totally failed to give any sense of scale.
After a glimpse to the Generalized Riemann Hypothesis wiki page, I'm afraid there's no football stadium or olympic pool for us.
Re: Monumental (if correct) advance in number theory posted to ArXiv by Yitang Zhang
#87There was a scientist who did his best stuff while he was working as a patent clerk.
Ironically he didn't patent E=MC^2 and now everyone says it scot-free.
> he didn't patent E=MC^2 and now everyone says it scot-free
Laws of nature (and descriptions thereof) aren't patentable.
https://www.bitlaw.com/source/mpep/2106_04_b.html#:~:text=Th....
Re: Monumental (if correct) advance in number theory posted to ArXiv by Yitang Zhang
#88I'm not a mathematician, but the story of Yitang Zhang desperately makes me want this paper to be correct. > Prior to getting back to academia, he worked for several years as an accountant and a delivery worker for a New York City restaurant. He also worked in a motel in Kentucky and in a Subway sandwich shop. A profile published in the Quanta Magazine reports that Zhang used to live in his car during the initial job…
Someone needs to make a movie about his life, or at least a documentary.
Why everything has to be a movie?
Re: Monumental (if correct) advance in number theory posted to ArXiv by Yitang Zhang
#89Is the 2022 in the bound there cause it's sharpest or because he happened to have the freedom to pick it equal to the year of publication?