It would be very discouraging if somewhere down the line you could ask a computer if the Riemann hypothesis is correct and it said, ‘Yes, it is true, but you won’t be able to understand the proof.’

About Ronald Graham

Ronald Lewis Grahamwas an American mathematician credited by the American Mathematical Society as “one of the principal architects of the rapid development worldwide of discrete mathematics in recent years”. He was president of both the American Mathematical Society and the Mathematical Association of America, and his honors included the Leroy P. Steele Prize for lifetime achievement and election to the National Academy of Sciences.

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