The preprint may or may not be from Atiyah (though the writing is consistent with his ramblings about physics and history), but this is an embarrassingly bad “preprint”. It contains almost no substance, and has a myriad of errors of all sorts. It really has many of the usual characteristics [1] of a crank paper, something you can find for a dime a dozen on Vixra.
I know Atiyah is supposed to present on the Riemann Hypothesis at the Heidelberg Laureate Forum on Monday. If the organizers saw this preprint and decided to green-light his lecture, I would consider that disrespectful (to Atiyah & the attendees) and borderline malicious, especially given the context of his other recent mathematical claims, along with his truly bizarre Abel lecture [2].
I know Atiyah is supposed to present on the Riemann Hypothesis at the Heidelberg Laureate Forum on Monday. If the organizers saw this preprint and decided to green-light his lecture, I would consider that disrespectful (to Atiyah & the attendees) and borderline malicious, especially given the context of his other recent mathematical claims, along with his truly bizarre Abel lecture [2].
[1] https://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=304
[2] https://youtube.com/watch?v=fUEvTymjpds