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Twin Prime Proof Erroneous
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."
heard this in an engineering class the other day... What's the contour integral around Western Europe? A: Zero, because all the Poles are in Eastern Europe!
Scott
Damn, I forgot to carry the 1...
I have no idea how this proof works because the server melted already.
Wh47 d1d j00 541, 31337 15n't t3h r0xor5 ne m0r3???
Their webserver it seems, " is apparently not quite perfect:" It has already been /.ed
Obviously evidence of a conspiracy to cover up the mistakes in the theorem. Sssshhh!
but the space that I'm allowed to type in here is too short.. :-)
There's a gorilla from Manilla whose a fella that stinks of vanilla and has salmonella.
Yeah, right, like I can imagine CmdrTaco rejecting a story because he read the math and found the error.
This story doesn't have anything to do with SCO! Come on, where's today's SCO story? This isn't funny, man, I need my fix!
Q: What did the constipated mathematician do?
A: He worked it out with a pencil!
Q: What's purple and commutes?
A: An Abelian grape.
Q: Why do you never hear the number 288 on television?
A: It's two gross.
Q: What do you get when you cross a mosquito with a rock climber?
A: Nothing. You can't cross a vector and a scalar.
Q. How many mathematicians does it take to change a lightbulb?
A. 1, he gives the lightbulb to 3 engineers, thus reducing the problem to a previously solved joke.
Q: What's big, grey, and proves the uncountability of the reals?
A: Cantor's diagonal elephant.
Q: What's yellow and equivalent to the Axiom of Choice?
A: Zorn's Lemon.
Q: What's yellow, normed, and complete?
A: A Bananach space.
Q: What is very old, used by farmers, and obeys the fundamental theorem of arithmetic?
A: An antique tractorisation domain.
Q: What is hallucinogenic and exists for every group with order divisible by p^k?
A: A psilocybin p-subgroup.
Q: What is often used by Canadians to help solve certain differential equations?
A: the Lacrosse transform.
Q: What is clear and used by trendy sophisticated engineers to solve other differential equations?
A: The Perrier transform.
Q: Who knows everything there is to be known about vector analysis?
A: The Oracle of del phi!
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Halfway through a recent airplane flight from Warsaw to New York, there was nearly a major disaster when the flight crew got sick from eating the fish. After they had passed out, one of the flight attendants asked over the intercom if there were any pilots in the cabin.
An elderly gentleman, who had flown a bit in the war, raised his hand and was rushed into the cockpit of the 747. When he got there, took the seat, and saw all the displays and controls, he realized he was in over his head. He told the flight attendant that he didn't think he could fly this plane. When asked why not, he replied,
"I am just a simple Pole in a complex plane"
So, they just had to rely on the method of steepest descents.
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You know that during the Great Flood, Noah brought along two of every species for reproductive purposes. Well, after a few weeks on the ark, all the couples were getting along fine, except for these two snakes. Day and night, Noah worried that this was going to mean the end of this species.
Finally when the flood ended and the ark hit ground, the two snakes darted out of the ship and headed to the nearest picnic table where they started to "go at it". It was then that Noah realized that...
Adders can't multiply without their log tables.
Note to M1-ers: a curt but otherwise insightful message is not "Flamebait" or "Troll".
Yeah, right, like I can imagine CmdrTaco rejecting a story because he read the math and found the error.
Actually, the most probable result is that CmdrTaco read the story and didn't find the error, but the error's order of magnitude was too large and so it resulted in a dupe.
"The large print giveth, and the small print taketh away" -Tom Waits
27159925611: 3 7 13 13 17 19 19 29 43
$ echo '13*17*19*29*57*91*43' | bc
27159925611
Thus, on the command line, the factorization is easier!
2+2 does equal 5, for sufficiently large values of 2.
:)
I love being a mth dork
Matt Fahrenbacher
James Tiberius Kirk: "Spock, the women on your planet are logical. No other planet in the galaxy can make that claim."
Yeah, and it's not even close. "order of magnitude" is more popular by a... heck of a lot. (heh.)
It was in here.
Unfortunately, I devoured it. Damn you Bill Cosby!
I still wouldn't mind these guys helping me understand my calculus homework...
Fuck! <> Back to my job at the gas station, I guess....