History
The original Tesfa Grid construction was discovered in January 2013. The years that followed were spent exploring its algebraic properties and testing whether it carried any genuine interaction with the prime sequence or was merely a numerical curiosity. By 2024 it had become clear that the structure was not incidental: multiple independent computational experiments identified the same signatures of structural regularity, and the algebraic theorems that followed had short, checkable proofs.
In March 2026, following a period of formalization and statistical rigor, the first two volumes were completed and submitted for peer review. The programme now carries nine proved theorems in Volume I, an additional formal result in Volume II (the Harmonic Sieve Theorem's empirical extension to zeta zeros), and four further results in Volume III (in preparation).
Mission
To establish a rigorous body of mathematical results concerning the interaction between the Tesfa Grid construction and the distribution of prime numbers, and to identify whether the structural signatures observed in the grid reflect deeper properties of the zeta function and its zeros.
The mission is explicitly not to prove the Riemann Hypothesis. The programme operates one theorem at a time, with disciplined separation between what is proved, what is conjectured, and what is speculated upon. Progress is measured in specific results with specific proofs, not in claims of scope.
Structure
The Tesfa Grid programme is currently carried out by a single researcher. Computational infrastructure, review correspondence, and programme operations are all managed independently from Addis Ababa. The programme accepts no external funding as of 2026; all work has been self-funded.
An applied commercial venture — Ethoryx Research — develops technology building on ideas from the programme for industrial cryptographic use. The two are organizationally and intellectually distinct: the Tesfa Grid programme publishes mathematics openly; Ethoryx operates under commercial and intellectual-property constraints appropriate to applied technology.
Location & context
The programme is based in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. We note this explicitly because the mathematical community has been historically under-connected to research output from Africa — a deficiency the Tesfa Grid programme is one small effort to correct. Number theory, like mathematics generally, is neither a regional capability nor a regional privilege; the tools are the same, the questions are the same, and the standards are the same.