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| Athanasios Fokas,"The greatest Greek mathematician right after Karatheodori "The most famous teacher. Photo: Athanasios Fokas via pinterest/onassis.gr |
The result, announced on June 25th, 2018, at the First Congress of the Greek Mathematical Society in Athens under the auspices of the president of Greece, Prokopios Pavlopoulos, has far reaching implications for fields like quantum computing, number theory, and encryption which forms the basis for cybersecurity.
Put forth in 1908 by Finnish topologist Ernst Leonard Lindelöf, the Lindelöf hypothesis is a conjecture about the rate of growth of the Riemann zeta function on the critical line implied by one of the most famous unsolved problems related to prime numbers, the Riemann Hypothesis, popularly referred to as the Holy Grail of math...
Lindelöf implies most of the claims of Riemann and Riemann fully implies Lindelöf, therefore a proof of Lindelöf equals a major breakthrough in the field of mathematics.
Bernhard Riemann reigns as the mathematician who made the single biggest breakthrough in prime number theory. Prime numbers – numbers like 2, 3, 5, 7 and 11 that are only divisible by 1 and itself – are ideal for things like RSA encryption, which protect our many online purchases. Prime numbers are literally the secret “keys” that hide your latest $35 Amazon purchase from prying eyes...
In many ways Fokas is the intellectual heir of Russian-American mathematician and biologist Israel Gelfand, considered one of the greatest mathematical minds of the 20th Century, who upon Fokas receiving the Aristeion Prize in Sciences from the Academy of Athens in 2004, wrote about his close collaborator: “Fokas is now a very rare example of a scientist in the style of the Renaissance.”
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