“Boston and Chicago are two great seats of mathematical research located in major American cities. Until they won in 2004, if you asked a baseball fan in Boston what they most hoped to see in their lifetime, they would have answered a World Series win for the Boston Red Sox. Chicago Cubs fans are still waiting. Ask a mathematician in either of those cities or anywhere else in the world what they would most hope to see in their lifetime, and they would most likely answer: "A proof o the Riemann hypothesis!" Perhaps mathematicians, like Red Sox fans, will have their prayers answered in our lifetimes, or at least before the Cubs win the World Series.” BaseballWorld SeriesChicago CubsBoston Red SoxRiemann Hypothesis Book:God Created the Integers: The Mathematical Breakthroughs That Changed History Source: God Created the Integers: The Mathematical Breakthroughs That Changed History