Mathematician says he's solved 159-yr-old problem worth $1mn
Fields Medal and Abel Prize-winning mathematician Sir Michael Atiyah on Monday demonstrated a proof of the 159-year-old Riemann Hypothesis, which is one of the "Millennium Problems", carrying a $1-million award for a confirmed solution. The hypothesis states that the distribution of prime numbers is not random, but might follow a pattern described by an equation called the Riemann zeta function.