From andrew@sophie.math.uga.edu Mon Apr 7 12:24:55 1997 Received: from dns2.uga.edu (dns2.uga.edu [128.192.1.193]) by euclid.math.temple.edu (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id MAA08846 for ; Mon, 7 Apr 1997 12:24:54 -0400 (EDT) Received: from sophie.math.uga.edu (sophie.math.uga.edu [128.192.3.59]) by dns2.uga.edu (8.8.5/8.8.3) with SMTP id MAA16948; Mon, 7 Apr 1997 12:24:18 -0400 Received: by sophie.math.uga.edu id AA17628 (5.67b/IDA-1.5); Mon, 7 Apr 1997 12:15:34 -0400 Date: Mon, 7 Apr 1997 12:15:34 -0400 From: Andrew Granville Message-Id: <199704071615.AA17628@sophie.math.uga.edu> To: eb@math.ias.edu, zeilberg@euclid.math.temple.edu Subject: April Fool's Day and the Riemann Conjecture Cc: andrew@sophie.math.uga.edu X-Sun-Charset: US-ASCII Content-Length: 3445 Status: RO Dear Doron and Enrico, Being involved on the AMS `public awareness' committee, I just received a copy of Enrico's April 1st `RH is solved' email, which has now been widely disseminated by various AMS officials as well as by, believe it or not, an organizer of the '98 ICM! (I enclose his email below). Unfortunately they received Enrico's email on April 2, April 7, etc... so seemed to think that it is genuine! Since I am officially involved I decided to quickly scotch the rumour before it gets too widely disseminated (enclosure below). Do you think any other action is necessary? Best wishes, Andrew ----- Begin Included Message 1 ----- >From andrew Mon Apr 7 12:05 EDT 1997 Date: Mon, 7 Apr 1997 12:05:10 -0400 From: Andrew Granville To: weintr@marais.math.lsu.edu, groetschel@zib.de, coprof@MATH.AMS.ORG, wgpam@MATH.AMS.ORG Subject: April Fool's Day and the Riemann Conjecture Cc: icm98-preregistration@opt-net.zib.de, mriff@math.u-strasbg.fr, andrew@sophie.math.uga.edu X-Sun-Charset: US-ASCII Content-Type: text Content-Length: 1089 Dear Colleagues, Sadly the Riemann conjecture still remains just that, a conjecture. Enrico Bombieri replied to email from Doron Zeilberger on April 1st, after Doron had misled his friends into believing that he had proven that e*pi and e+pi are both transcendental. Enrico, who spells words in English better than Dan Quayle, replied to Doron in kind, referring in his email to `a mixture of anyons and morons with opposite spins' which should perhaps be a hint that this is a joke. In these days of email, April Fool's Day Jokes seem to get a little out-of-hand, arriving in people's mailbox sometimes several days after the joke is past its due date. Worse still, it arrives in countries where there is no notion of April Fool's Day Jokes ... Presumably one of the few worthwhile by-products of the global communications network will be the dissemination of the notion of April Fool's Day! On the other hand, it is true that Alain Connes does have some very interesting new ideas on GRH....Sorry to disappoint y'all that there is nothing more as yet, Andrew Granville ----- End Included Message 1----- ----- Begin Included Message 2 ----- >From Owner-ICM98-PREREGISTRATION@opt-net.zib.de Mon Apr 7 10:00:02 1997 To: icm98-preregistration@opt-net.zib.de Subject: ICM98-CL11: Riemann conjecture solved? X-Sun-Charset: US-ASCII Sender: Owner-ICM98-PREREGISTRATION@zib.de Precedence: bulk Reply-To: groetschel@zib.de (Martin Groetschel) Status: R TO ALL MATHEMATICIANS WHO HAVE PRELIMINARILY PREREGISTERED FOR THE INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS OF MATHEMATICIANS 1998 IN BERLIN Eleventh Circular Letter, April 7, 1997 (Special Announcement) Subject: ICM98-CL11: Riemann conjecture solved? Dear colleague: I have received variants of the e-mail below from several sources and was asked to distribute the news over the ICM98 e-mail server. If the message and the result are correct, a really important mathematical problem is solved. Thus, I believe that the announcement deserves wide distribution. The message, I was told, is an e-mail from Enrico Bombieri to Doron Zeilberger explaining the solution of the Riemann conjecture by Alain Connes and an unnamed young physicist. Sincerely Martin Groetschel (Enrico's email was appended below, with various other headers on it!) ----- End Included Message 2 ----