原题：Riemann Hypothesis Proved!
Now that I have got your attention, let me make a few comments.
Professor De Brange has claimed that he has proved the number one problem in mathematics, the Riemann Hypothesis for some years and unfortunately he has never been recognized for his great contributions because no body proved or disproved that he really solved the problem.
Professor Andrew Wiles did not get the Fields medal for his contributions to the proof of the Fermat Theorem because there was a gap in his proof, although he eventually provided a complete proof.
Now times have changed in the twenty-first century, as the Internet has changed our lives and so has the standard for proving mathematical proofs. In fact, it seems clear that the International Congress of Mathematicians or, more precisely, its current representatives, have changed the rules about what a mathematical proof should really be. From now on, new PhD students in mathematics should take pride in their field as they are no longer required to constructed complete proofs for their theorems if their supervisors think their ideas are definitely correct and no details are necessary.
Dr. Perelman, for sure, is a great mathematician and his name will go down in mathematics history as the pivotal figure in the proof of Poincare Conjecture. As demonstrated by his own comments, it is the work one has completed that is really important and nothing else and I would venture to speculate that this is why he declined the Fields medal. However, there are certain interest groups in the mathematics community that are so blatant and unscrupulos when it comes to attacking their colleagues.
For the record, I do think that Ms. Nasar, piggybacking on her success with "A Beautiful Mind", has broken the basic rules in journalism. I am disgusted with the way she writes about Chinese mathematicians.
For people who do not like this post, I would like to add a few things about myself. I am not a mathematician but I have a PhD in mathematics and I have published 4 mathematics papers in US journals. I have the background to understand what is going on in mathematics. By the way, congratulations to Professor Terence Tao and Ben Green for their wonderful work on prime numbers!
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