Correspondence about the origins of the Hilbert-Polya Conjecture

Ray Easton kraimie at gmail.com
Sat Jul 24 07:37:26 CDT 2010


On Sat, Jul 24, 2010 at 7:18 AM, Michael Bailey
<michael.lee.bailey at gmail.com> wrote:
>  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)
>

Yes, Yashmeen.  My recollection is even hazier than I believed!  (And
yes, it appears that I think of her as Jasmine.)

Ray



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