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Extractions: Francis Edward Su From the Fun Fact files, here is a Fun Fact at the Advanced level: If you know about complex numbers, you will be able to appreciate one of the great unsolved problems of our time. The Riemann zeta function is defined by Zeta(z) = SUM k=1 to infinity (1/k z This is the harmonic series for z=1 and Sums of Reciprocal Powers if you set z equal to other positive integers. The function can be extended to the entire complex plane (with some poles) by a process called "analytic continuation", although what that is won't concern us here. It is of great interest to find the zeroes of this function. The function is trivially zero at the negative even integers, but where are all the other zeroes? To date, the only other zeroes known all lie on the line in the complex plane with real part equal to 1/2. This has been checked for several hundred million zeroes! No one knows, however, if
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Extractions: International Edition MEMBER SERVICES The Web CNN.com Home Page World U.S. Weather ... Autos SERVICES Video E-mail Newsletters Your E-mail Alerts RSS ... Contact Us SEARCH Web CNN.com The 100-year-old problem seeks to explain the geometry of three-dimensional space. Story Tools YOUR E-MAIL ALERTS Russia Research or Create your own Manage alerts What is this? SAN FRANCISCO, California (AP) A publicity-shy Russian researcher who labors in near-seclusion may have solved one of mathematics' oldest and most abstruse problems, the Poincare Conjecture. Evidence has been mounting since November 2002 that Grigori "Grisha" Perelman has cracked the 100-year-old problem, which seeks to explain the geometry of three-dimensional space. If Perelman succeeded, he could be eligible for a $1 million prize offered by the Cambridge, Massachusetts-based Clay Mathematics Institute, formed to identify the world's seven toughest math problems. Mathematicians around the world have been checking Perelman's work in search of the kind of flaws that have sunk the many other supposed solutions to a problem first presented by the French mathematician Henri Poincare in 1904. "This is arguably the most famous unsolved problem in math and has been for some time," said Bruce Kleiner, a University of Michigan math professor reviewing Perelman's work.
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Extractions: If you own only one puzzle book, this should be the one. This magnum opus organizes brightly illustrated puzzles under fourteen headings, including geometry, points and lines, graphs and networks, curves and circles, shapes and polygons, patterns, dissections, numbers, logic and probability, topology, science, perception, and a bonus collection. Solutions are provided in a separate section at the back, as well as references and a difficulty index. All puzzles are rated on a scale 1-10, from beginner to challenging.
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Extractions: Main Last week, a 26-year-old engineering grad student at the University of Michigan got back from a meeting, sat down at his computer, and discovered that he had earned his own footnote in the history of mathematics. Michael Shafer did a victory dance, then called his wife to let her know that he had found the largest known prime number Prime numbers are those, like 7 and 101, that have no divisors other than 1 and themselves. Although there are an infinite number of primes, it's impossible to predict precisely where they will show up. The prime number theorem gives a rough estimate of how many primes exist below a given number the degree of error in this estimate is intimately tied to the Riemann Hypothesis , the most important unsolved problem in number theory (and one worth a million bucks to the mathematician who solves it) but there's generally no easy way to tell if a given number is prime. The type of prime that Shafer discovered, mersenne primes , are an exception. Mersenne primes are primes of the form 2
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Extractions: Who of us would not be glad to lift the veil behind which the future lies hidden; to cast a glance at the next advances of our science and at the secrets of its development during future centuries? What particular goals will there be toward which the leading mathematical spirits of coming generations will strive? What new methods and new facts in the wide and rich field of mathematical thought will the new centuries disclose? History teaches the continuity of the development of science. We know that every age has its own problems, which the following age either solves or casts aside as profitless and replaces by new ones. If we would obtain an idea of the probable development of mathematical knowledge in the immediate future, we must let the unsettled questions pass before our minds and look over the problems which the science of today sets and whose solution we expect from the future. To such a review of problems the present day, lying at the meeting of the centuries, seems to me well adapted. For the close of a great epoch not only invites us to look back into the past but also directs our thoughts to the unknown future. The deep significance of certain problems for the advance of mathematical science in general and the important role which they play in the work of the individual investigator are not to be denied. As long as a branch of science offers an abundance of problems, so long is it alive; a lack of problems foreshadows extinction or the cessation of independent development. Just as every human undertaking pursues certain objects, so also mathematical research requires its problems. It is by the solution of problems that the investigator tests the temper of his steel; he finds new methods and new outlooks, and gains a wider and freer horizon.
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Extractions: One Oxford Street, Cambridge In 1956, the Dutch graphic artist M.C. Escher made an unusual lithograph with the title `Print Gallery'. It shows a young man viewing a print in an exhibition gallery. Amongst the buildings depicted on the print, he sees paradoxically the very same gallery that he is standing in. A lot is known about the way in which Escher made his lithograph. It is not nearly as well known that it contains a hidden `Droste effect', or infinite repetition; but this is brought to light by a mathematical analysis of the studies used by Escher. On the basis of this discovery, a team of mathematicians at Leiden produced a series of hallucinating computer animations. These show, among others, what happens inside the mysterious spot in the middle of the lithograph that Escher left blank. Escher and the Droste effect
