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Sometimes I like to sharpen my mind a little (only just) with a math article or two, to see how little I remember calculus from high school and college.

Namely, articles like this one.  It covers the search for a proof to the Riemann zeta function; which would, according to the author:

Almost a century later, the Riemann hypothesis is still unsolved. Its glamour is unequalled because it holds the key to the primes, those mysterious numbers that underpin so much of math-ematics. And now whoever cracks it will find not only glory in posterity, but a tidy reward in this life: a $1 million prize announced this April by the Clay Mathematics Institute in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Also, the zeta function has had its time in the popular fiction spotlight as well, appearing in Neal Stephenson’s Cryptonomicon and Thomas Pynchon’s Against the Day.  How much do you remember from high school or college math?!