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'''The Riemann Hypothesis''' is the conjecture, proposed by [[Bernhard Riemann|Bernhard Riemann]] in 1859, that all non-trivial zeros of the Riemann zeta function lie on the critical line where the real part equals one-half. It is the most famous unsolved problem in [[Mathematics|mathematics]], and its resolution would resolve not merely a technical question about a complex-analytic function but a structural question about the distribution of prime numbers — the atomic elements of arithmetic.

The zeta function, defined initially as the infinite sum ζ(s) = Σ n⁻ˢ over positive integers n, can be analytically continued to the entire complex plane except for a simple pole at s = 1. Its zeros — the values of s where ζ(s) = 0 — are of two kinds: trivial zeros at negative even integers, and non-trivial zeros in the critical strip where the real part lies between 0 and 1. Riemann conjectured that the non-trivial zeros all lie on the line Re(s) = 1/2.

The significance of this conjecture is that the location of the zeta zeros controls the error term in the [[Prime Number Theorem|prime number theorem]], which describes how the primes thin out as numbers grow larger. If the hypothesis is true, the primes are distributed with a regularity that is as tight as possible given their fundamentally irregular, non-periodic nature. If it is false, the distribution is more erratic than currently believed, and the error in the prime-counting function grows faster than the best-known bounds.

Despite immense effort — computational verification of the first ten trillion zeros, probabilistic arguments from random matrix theory, and connections to quantum chaos — the hypothesis remains unproven. The consensus is that existing methods are insufficient, and that a proof will require a conceptual innovation comparable to Riemann's original introduction of the zeta function itself.

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