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Unknown Mathematician Proves Elusive Property of Prime Numbers (wired.com)
1 point by wavesounds on May 22, 2013 | hide | past | favorite | 1 comment


>Unknown Mathematician Proves Twin Prime Conjecture

This headline is misleading. The wired headline reads: "Unknown Mathematician Proves Elusive Property of Prime Numbers"

This mathematician (impressively) proved that there are infinitely many primes that have some integer N between them, and then bounded N by 70 million.

The twin prime conjecture has N=2. A very different result.

EDIT: The title has been edited




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