Riemann hypothesis

High school (ages 12+)
Mathematics & Numbers

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1. What is the mathematical field?Analytic number theory, complex analysis
2. What is the proposed by?Bernhard Riemann in 1859
3. What is the Prime Number Theorem?It says that the number of primes up to a big number x is about x divided by the natural log of x. It gives a rough estimate of how many primes there are.
4. Why is the Riemann hypothesis important for primes?It would give the best possible error estimate for the Prime Number Theorem, so we would know exactly how primes are distributed.

Riemann Zeta Function: A complex function defined by ζ(s) = Σ(1/n^s) for Re(s) > 1, analytically continued to the whole complex plane.
Non-trivial Zeros: Complex numbers s for which ζ(s) = 0, excluding the negative even integers.
Critical Line: The set of complex numbers s such that Re(s) = 1/2.
Prime Number Theorem: An asymptotic formula stating that π(x) ~ x/ln(x), where π(x) is the prime-counting function.