I am proud to mark this speech of Prof.Zhang about his latest work on the Landau-Siegel Zeros Conjecture.
See it in Youtube, here.
More detailed explaination in Chinese, here.
Updated on Nov 17, 2022.
The email of Nature Brief, on Nov 14, mentioned the latest ahievement of Prof.Yitang Zhang.
Mathematician claims new breakthrough
Number theorist Yitang Zhang, who went from obscurity to luminary status in 2013 for cracking a century-old question about prime numbers, now claims to have solved another. The problem is similar to — but distinct from — the Riemann hypothesis, which is considered one of the most important problems in mathematics. Zhang posted his proposed solution — a 111-page preprint — on arXiv, and it has not yet been validated by his peers. If it checks out, it will help to tame the randomness of prime numbers, but Zhang and other scientists have previously proposed solutions to this problem that turned out to be faulty. It will take a while for researchers to comb through Zhang’s argument to see whether it is correct.
Reference: arXiv preprint (not peer reviewed)
Updated on Nov 18, 2022.
Terence Tao pointed out some “technical issues” in Yitang’s manuscript with a well-said comment – “in particular, I would not want to pressure Yitang to upload a hastily edited revision of the manuscript instead of a carefully proofread one).”
