Two days ago, we reported that the Federal University, Oye Ekiti (FUOYE), released a statement claiming that one of their lecturers, Dr Enoch Opeyemi, had deciphered the 156-year-old Mathematics problem called the Riemann Hypothesis. This hypothesis is one of the seven Millennium Problems in Mathematics presented to the public by the Clay Mathematics Institute and provision of a solution comes with a $1million prize.
In his interview with BBC, the Dr Enoch explained that he took on the problem after his undergraduate students presented him with the problem and said that they wanted to make money off it from the internet. Though not motivated by the financial reward, Dr Enoch began his computations in 2010 through 2012, until he arrived at a result.
According the report by aperiodical.com, the hypothesis has not been solved, and that the only Mathematics problem that is publicly known to have been deciphered is thePoincaré conjecture. The publication also made claims that Dr Enoch has beengathering academic papers that allegedly is a copy of a paper belonging to someone called Werner Raab, but admitted that Dr Enoch presented his solution to the Riemann Hypothesis at this legitimate conference.
The only body that can confirm if Dr Enoch Opeyemi did solve the problem or not is the Clay Mathematics Institute, but as of today, their website says that the Riemann Hypothesis has not been solved.
Source: BBC
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