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Twin Prime Proof Erroneous

Posted by michael on from the 2+2=5 dept.

mindriot writes "The fairly recent perceived breakthrough in prime number theory regarding twin primes, as mentioned on slashdot, is apparently not quite perfect: 'On April 23rd, Andrew Granville of the Universite de Montreal and K. Soundararajan of the University of Michigan found a technical difficulty buried in one of the arguments in the preprint of Goldston and Yildrim. The main issue is that some quantities which were believed to be small error terms are actually the same order of magnitude as the main term. For now this difficulty remains unresolved.' A more detailed technical description is also available."

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  1. Re:If the cures need a more powerful computer... by Pinguu · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    I agree, so maybe they should work on better and more powerful mathematics instead of working on pointless mathematics?

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