1. Typeset in (what appears to be) Microsoft Word. Anyone under the age of 90 who knows enough math to prove the Riemann Hypothesis will have learned and strongly prefer LaTeX.
2. Casually introduces novel terminology like "entropy-spiral coordinate" without explanation, inconsistent with norms of mathematical exposition.
3. Social absurdities characteristic of crankery. Nobody with enough knowledge to prove the Riemann hypothesis thinks they need to put "rights holder" after their name in the proof.
Is there any real expert opinion on this? The abstract itself reads rather dense.
That said, if there's any field that "independent researchers" can excel, it should be math, it's not like you need an experimental group to crib off on.
> Each appendix isolates and resolves one of the classical obstacles to a self-contained Hilbert–Pólya formulation—self-adjointness, trace-class bounds, Paley–Wiener confinement, Weyl normalization, and uniqueness of the arithmetic weights.
Given the nature of the problem and the unsolicited mention of a "confinement manifold" earlier in the abstract, this summary gives very strong vibes of "My corral has six well closed gates, why do you keep asking about the fence?". This is in addition to not trusting complex and unclear proofs.
The author also claims to have proved the twin prime conjecture. https://figshare.com/articles/dataset/The_Twin_Prime_Conject...
They don't seem to be affiliated with any university and don't seem to collaborate with anyone except this one person, Andrew Elliot.
My assessment of the probability that this is a real proof: Less than 0.1%.
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