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inb4 "I don't know anything but we paid a mathematician to tell us that we only care about RH for the prime number theorem and if we don't believe it then we wasted that money."

>http://empslocal.ex.ac.uk/people/staff/mrwatkin/zeta/physics2.htm
>One of the earliest, and perhaps most significant, examples of number theory influencing the development of physics was the application of Polya's work on the Riemann zeta function to the theory of phase transitions by Lee and Yang in the early 1950's.