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"Marvelous cancellations": T.J. Stieltjes' letters concerning the zeta function

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Abstract

This article introduces and translates letters from T.J. stieltjes (1856-1894) to C. Hermite (1822-1891) regarding Stieltjes' published notes claiming to have solved B. Riemann's conjecture "it is very probable that all the roots [of the zeta function] are real."

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@article{arxiv.1410.8592,
  title  = {"Marvelous cancellations": T.J. Stieltjes' letters concerning the zeta function},
  author = {Juan Marin},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1410.8592},
  year   = {2014}
}