William T. Ross on the Riemann Hypothesis and Mathematical Proof Culture

What separates a genuinely unsolved problem from an extremely difficult exercise, and how does the Riemann Hypothesis illustrate that difference in modern mathematics?

Professor William T. (Bill) Ross is a professor of mathematics at the University of Richmond, where he teaches across the undergraduate curriculum and researches complex analysis and operator theory, with a focus on operators on Banach spaces of analytic functions. He is the author or co-author of several books, including works on Hardy spaces, model sp…