Nigerian lecturer said to have solved 156-Year-old Math problem

A Nigerian university lecturer has claimed the he has
successfully solved a maths conundrum that had stumped
scholars for more than 150 years.
Dr Opeyemi Enoch, from the Federal University in the
ancient city of Oye Ekiti, believes he has solved one of the
seven millennium problems in mathematics.
The professor said he was able to find a solution to the
Riemann Hypothesis first proposed by German
mathematician Bernhard Riemann in 1859, which could
earn him a $1m prize, the BBC reported.
“Dr Enoch first investigated and then established the
claims of Riemann,” said a statement from the university
where he teaches.
“He went on to consider and to correct the misconceptions
that were communicated by mathematicians in the past
generations, thus paving way for his solutions and proofs
to be established.
“He also showed how other problems of this kind can be
formulated and obtained the matrix that Hilbert and Poly
predicted will give these undiscovered solutions. He
revealed how these solutions are applicable in
cryptography, quantum information science and in
quantum computers.”
Dr Enoch has previously worked on mathematical models
for generating electricity from sound, thunder and ocean
bodies, The Telegraph reported.
According to software engineer Robert Elder, the complex
Riemann conundrum “is based on an observation
Riemann made about the equation: Every value of the
equation that makes it go to zero seems to lie on the exact
same line”.
The seven millennium problems are set out by the
Massachusetts-based Clay Mathematical Institute (CMI)
as being the “most difficult” to solve.
A spokesperson for the CMI said: “As a matter of policy,
the CMI does not comment on solutions to the Millennium
Problems”

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