Theodore Kaczynski Wins Clay Math Prize

Keith F. Lynch · science forum beginner Joined: 14 Apr 2005 Posts: 15

FLORENCE, Colorado (AFJ) -- American mathematician Theodore Kaczynski,
who specializes in boundary functions, geometric function theory, and
killing people, won the Clay Math Foundation's $1 million prize for
disproving the Riemann hypothesis.

The Riemann hypothesis involves the location of the complex zeros of
the Riemann zeta function. While some mathematicians tried to prove
it, others used powerful computers to search for counterexamples.
Over a trillion zeros had been looked at, but Kaczynski noticed
that they all had positive imaginary values. He started looking
at negative imaginary values, and almost immediately found a
counterexample, a complex zero that wasn't on the critical line.

The Clay Math Foundation confirmed that he will be collecting the
$1 million prize.

Kaczynski said that he had little use for money, and will be donating
the full proceeds to his favorite charity, a foundation that teaches
underprivileged youngsters how to build letterbombs.

Kaczynski had previously won the Clay Math award for other of their
seven millennium math problems: Finding a closed-form solution to
the Navier-Stokes Equations. These equations are extremely useful
for describing the flow of air or water around airplanes, ships,
submarines, missiles, and, most importantly to Kaczynski, bombs.

He had also attempted to also win the RSA Challenge, which consists of
factoring a large composite number that is the product of two prime
factors. However, he was only able to find one of the two prime
factors, so he did not win that prize.

His future plans include proving the Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer
conjecture, solving P = NP, and digging an escape tunnel with a
stolen spoon.
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