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Why this site exists
The Riemann hypothesis is over 160 years old and still open: it is one of the Clay Millennium Prize Problems and arguably the most famous unsolved problem in mathematics. The community working on it and on the wider theory of the zeros of zeta and L-functions is large but enumerable. This site is a starting point for anyone wanting to know who is working on the Riemann hypothesis today, where they are, and what they have been writing recently.
Who built it
Steve Hubbard built this as a sister project to Who's Who in Goldbach Research, using the same open pipeline and documented methodology. Suggestions, corrections, and additions are welcome.
Contact
Questions, corrections, or additions: admin@wwirh.org.
Sources of error
- Surname matching is fragile. Mathematicians with common surnames may be conflated. The pipeline handles the worst cases but misses are possible.
- Citation counts are influenced by adjacent fields. Riemann-hypothesis work overlaps with random matrix theory, analytic number theory, and mathematical physics, so a researcher whose work bridges those fields may rank higher purely because those fields cite more. The OpenAlex term
random matrixin particular pulls in wireless and signal-processing engineers, so it is excluded from the OpenAlex queries. - Coverage is biased toward digital publishing. The Riemann hypothesis is a heavily arXiv-based field, which the pipeline indexes well, but some senior figures who publish mainly in journals are undercounted, and the zbMATH MSC layer that corrects for this is still being integrated.
- The Top 100 is not a verdict. It is a starting point. Use it alongside MathSciNet, your advisor, and your own reading.
Acknowledgments
Data sources: arXiv, OpenAlex, zbMATH Open.
License and reuse
The data on this site is built from public sources (arXiv, OpenAlex, zbMATH) under their respective license terms. The compiled list and methodology are released under CC-BY 4.0: feel free to reuse with attribution.