Mathematicians Are Making Major Breakthroughs In The Understanding Of Prime Numbers

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

[BenLurkin]

 Most mathematicians have a sense that the twin primes conjecture should be true — the positioning of the prime numbers appear to be more or less random, even though on average the gaps between primes get larger, and if one has an infinitely long list of random odd numbers, we should have an infinite collection of pairs in our list. 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.

[Paladin2]

Dual primes are my favorite type of numbers.

[Diana in Wisconsin]

“Math is HARD!” ~ Barbie...and Diana in Wisconsin, LOL!

[Paladin2]

Dual -—> +2

[BenLurkin]

It’s all Greek to me.

[PistolPaknMama]

I’ve been saying that for years. (/s)

[MV=PY]

Thanks for posting. Interesting stuff.

The internet is obviously helping to advance research by speeding communication and enabling collaboration. Once the concept of a bounded gap was introduced everyone piled on.

[HereInTheHeartland]

““Math is HARD!” ~ Barbie...and Diana in Wisconsin, LOL!”

I’ll have to put that question on my Match.com profile to ask woman before I talk to them!

[carlo3b]

Wait, WHAT?... ugh.. Is there going to be a test at the end? OMG, I hope not.. :)

[Scrambler Bob]

Most integers are very large.

[DManA]

One One is the loneliest number that you’ll ever do.

[DManA]

I think Mathematician Barbie is new for this Christmas season.

[BenLurkin]

Okay. Now I have that song stuck in my head.

[Vendome]

Uh 1, uh 2, uh 3, 5,11,

[DManA]

Called ear-worms. I get them too.

[Ramius]

7. You forgot 7.

[17th Miss Regt]

This has implications for the security of public key cryptography.

[driftdiver]

Ken says his prime numbers are 38 24 36

[aruanan]

And 7?

[lyby]

Note my tagline...