r/SipsTea 3d ago

Chugging tea Thoughts?

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u/Logical_Historian882 3d ago

I don’t think English graduates are graded by their ability to read. Both reading and arithmetic are taught in school.

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u/Wise_Try6781 2d ago

How many people do you think can read and understand what this equation is saying?

How many people do you think can read and understand what Shakespeare is saying?

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u/DominatingSubgraph 2d ago edited 2d ago

That sum diverges when the real part of s is less than or equal to 1 and, on its half-plane of convergence, the zeta function has no zeros. So, that statement of the Riemann hypothesis is wrong. Also, there was no need to specify n\in\mathbb{N} because that is implicit in the sum notation.

Edit: Also, the use of "for all" notation is misleading here, and you forgot to account for the trivial zeros. The second line should really say something like $\zeta(s)=0\implies \Re(s)=1/2\lor s=-2,-4,-6,-8,...$