Correspondence about the origins of the Hilbert-Polya Conjecture

[Michael Bailey]

 Ray Easton wrote:

> I don't have the text of AtD available to me now, but recall that when
> I read it I thought that the back and forth between J. and Hilbert
> during his the lecture on RH "suggested"  this conjecture.  Take with
> some grains of salt -- my memory of the text is hazy.
>
> Ray
>

J being Yashmeen?  (unless I miss my guess you sometimes think of her
as Jasmine, as do I)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hilbert-P%C3%B3lya_conjecture