Mathematicians Are Making Major Breakthroughs In The Understanding Of Prime Numbers

businessinsider.com ^ | Nov. 21, 2013, 3:07 PM | Andy Kiersz

[Gene Eric]

>> If at some point, prime numbers are always more than two numbers away from each other, we have a non-random aspect to their distribution that goes against this intuition.

Gibberish.

This is not a property of prime numbers.

[BenLurkin]

http://www.johnspeedie.com/healy/Ooo-eee.wav

[Diana in Wisconsin]

'Bluetooth and Google Glasses Barbie,' LOL!

[Diana in Wisconsin]

[Walmartian]

What if 6 turned out to be 9?

[Bratch]

My favorite "prime".

[Delta 21]

How complete of an understanding do you need to know that it goes on forever?

Cant I get a gov't grant for my studies?

[Mmmike]

Moreover, almost every integer is very large.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks BenLurkin.

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[Billthedrill]

Why are some numbers prime and the rest, not? Oh, yeah, you can tell all those divisibility stories you like, but the truth is that they're members of a privileged class lording it over all the rest, white capitalist racist imperialist OPPRESSORS.

Prime numbers, bah. Those of us who understand truly advanced social theory don't need math.

[woofie]

One is the Loneliest Number

[onedoug]

“Soda!”

[AdmSmith]

A very good non-technical article https://www.simonsfoundation.org/quanta/20131119-together-and-alone-closing-the-prime-gap/

and the meat is here http://terrytao.wordpress.com/2013/11/22/polymath8b-ii-optimising-the-variational-problem-and-the-sieve/

[SunkenCiv]

Prime... meat... heh heh...

THanks AdmSmith.

[AdmSmith]

lol!