The television season began last September, accompanied by many new features. One of them, undoubtedly, landed at The 1st of Spanish Television and he did it under the name of The revolt. The popular Movistar Plus+ program, presented by David Broncano, not only changed the network, it also changed its name. A different prime time program, but with the same essence as always. Of course, there is a novelty in its staging which has not gone unnoticed by viewers. A table which, for mathematics experts, was a revolution.
As fans of the series know very well, every evening, behind David Broncano’s table there is a blackboard with a series of mathematical operations. A mysterious graph that, according to experts in the field, is more complex than it seems. “I watch La Révolte with my son and I realized it from the first day”comments Raúl Ibáñez, mathematician from the UPV/EHU. “Whoever put this there knows math or contacted someone who does, because the graph is well done and it’s not something simple”declares Eduardo Sáenz de Cabezón, mathematician and presenter of La 2.
But what about this mathematical formula that arouses so much curiosity among the public? Well, apparently, This is the Riemann hypothesis.first formulated in 1859 by the German Bernhard Riemann. A test so important that It is involved in the distribution of prime numbers and in areas such as physics, probability theory and applied statistics.
Actually, Clay Institute of Mathematics offers $1 million prize for solutionbeing enshrined as one of the seven problems of the millennium. “Hilbert himself said that if he fell asleep and woke up in 500 years, the first thing he would ask would be whether the Riemann hypothesis has already been proven,” recalls Alberto Márquez, professor at the University of Seville.
“In the book HumansMatt Haig suggests that aliens are coming to Earth to kill the man who proved the Riemann hypothesis, because This is such important knowledge that humans will misuse it and could destroy the universe.», comments Raúl Ibáñez.
Many experts say this is perhaps one of the most interesting math problems to solve. “In a very summary way, what the image represents It’s a function called zeta and the hypothesis says that the values that make this function zero are all on a straight line“, says Alberto Márquez.
“If the Riemann hypothesis is proven, we could better approximate its frequency,” explains Raúl Ibáñez. “AND Whoever does it will make history at that very momentas Grigori Perelman did to solve Poincaré’s conjecture or Andrew Wiles to prove Fermat’s last theorem; this is the level of importance», he concludes. Without a doubt, the particularities of The revolt which do not leave you indifferent.
