MIT Professor Solves $1,000,000 Math Problem

MIT Professor Solves $1,000,000 Math Problem // If you think this is just another one of those MIT hacks, you’re in for a shocking surprise. Just this morning I received a flurry of tweets claiming that the Riemann Hypothesis had been solved. So I dug a little deeper and found out that the MIT professor who claims to have solved it, Professor Sal Fliporo, does indeed work at the MIT EECS (Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Dept, or Course 6 for you MIT students and MIT alumni). Surprisingly, he is NOT in the MIT math department. His research interests include applied quantum computing which he used to actually DISPROVE the Riemann Hypothesis!

Wait, so is the Riemann Hypothesis solved? Yes - but not the way we expected. He found a whole class of solutions to the Riemann Zeta function which lie outside the computational reach of today’s most powerful supercomputers. The fact that he did this using an IBM Q System One Quantum Computer 2022 will likely create a major brouhaha in quantum computing news. Amazingly, these so-called alpha-class solutions that he discovered DO NOT have real part equal to ½.

As the winner of one of the seven millennium prize problems, Prof. Fliporo will undoubtedly receive backlash from the mathematical community. His counterexamples will wreck literally thousands of careers that were based on the validity of the Riemann Hypothesis. Already the Harvard vs MIT feud has erupted (I posted both of their sparring tweets in this video) and there will be naysayers claiming that this is just an April Fools MIT hack trying to make light of one of the most famous unsolved math problems. April Fools day pranks or not, one of the most challenging math problems ever posed has allegedly been solved. MIT vs Harvard will reach fever pitch if Sal Fliporo’s solutions prove to be true!

As an MIT alum myself (Class of ‘98), I hope others in academia (including fellow MIT alumni, MIT faculty, and MIT students) will enjoy this video. If anything, you will get a glimpse into the high stakes research and cutting edge technology MIT is renowned for. As a point of interest, I am a Course 1 graduate myself (Civil Engineering).

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0:00 Intro and Twitter Posts
0:17 The Lore Behind the Riemann Hypothesis
0:40 Sal Fliporo’s Background at MIT
1:05 What is the Riemann Hypothesis?
2:05 The Role of Quantum Computers
2:20 Sal Fliporo’s Shocking Discovery
2:36 Live Interview
3:58 Transmission Terminated

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[RisetotheEquation]

Good news - Sal has fully recovered from his lightsaber wounds!

[zanti]

Wow, April 1, 2022, a historic day for mathematics! Oh wait, April 1...

[programmingpi]

It is convincing much longer when you're watching it 8 months after it came out and therefore didn't know it came out on April 1.

[michaeliverson]

Good joke! Had me going there for the first half!

[IgnacioMondacaM]

R. conjecture is proved by the ability to factorize for T>t, i = 1 from Titchmarsh formula "sin (f(z))" as the sum of arranges for e(-Ln(s)) = 0

[manstuckinabox]

Heh, guess it will go down in history as an April proof...

[mathfun]

Someone could answer me, how gives 1+1/2^(25+25i)... This question is equivalent to of the prize. Now get start your quantum computers.

[edwardmacnab]

I already have Daniel Thrasher thank you very much, However, my skepticism rose when quantum computer was mentioned as I believe we are still in the nuclear Fusion stage of Quantum Computing which is to say, the Marketing Phase, the Media Phase, or the Hype Phase, whichever way you want to put it .

[BigAsciiHappyStar]

Video length is 4 minutes 1 second. Seems legit 🙂

[antoniopedrofalcaolopesmor]

"Sal Fliporo = April Fools"
I still haven't watched the video... but is this a prank then?? I am now confused. Pls objectively say whether or not this is a prank. Thank u!

[IDIF]

What is the method or specialized institutes for publishing any mathematical proof?

[nahimafing]

sal fliporo?
That could be an anagram for something... Hmm....

[narfharder]

You didn't say "Simon says"!
Sal Fliporo = all is proof

This was fun, though the video length gave it away. Oops, a frill!

[aderinsolajoshua]

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 I was already having suicide thoughts

[edwardmacnab]

what is required here is a General proof, a proof that consists of logic, not of practical inconsistency. It is steamingly obvious that it has for all intents and purposes been demonstrated as true, it's proof via logic is the only thing of any value as such a proof would have implications beyond this particular hypothesis !

[randomdud]

if you didn't already notice this is false

[thearchivalist]

Imagine if Boston could spawn actual humor.

[Dr.pants]

Sorry, dude. But I solved this problem well before this guy. Not to mention that they were looking for a number greater than one. And if he used a quantum computer he didn't solve anything.

[adityamishra]

This was really funny... i am a mathematician myself...

[christianmartin]

Never ever would anyone risk to disprove the RH. It would be such a loss of all the math achievements that are true "subject to the RH" that the guy would instantly "owe" the $1 million 😁