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.

[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]

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[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!