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Twin Prime Proof Proffered
HateBreeder writes "Continuing on a previous slashdot story regarding Arenstorf's proof of the existence of Infinitely Many Prime Twins,
it seems that a hole has recently been found in the proof, however mathematicians remain hopeful that the proof can be corrected."
"OH SHIT, THERE'S A HORSE IN THE HOSPITAL!"
"Continuing on a previous slashdot story regarding Arenstorf's proof of the existence of Infinitely Many First Posts, it seems that a hole has recently been found in the proof, however mathematicians remain hopeful that the proof can be corrected."
While Arenstorf's approach looks promising, an error in one particular step of the proof (...) has recently been pointed out by (...) Tenenbaum
Damn him, he claims Linux design is wrong too!
err, does he?
Anagram("United States of America") == "Dine out, taste a Mac, fries"
scientists doing math,
slashdotters aimless wrath,
comments from stupid jerks,
and TWINS!
[i]it seems that a hole has recently been found in the proof[/i]
He forgot to carry the 1
At a conference, a mathematician proves a theorem. Someone in the audience interrupts him: "That proof must be wrong. I have a counterexample to your theorem." The speaker replies, "I don't care, I have another proof for it."
An example of the maths humour genre from my Director of Studies (who was pissed at the time):
...it seemed funnier at the time. Specially after the Zorb's Lemon joke.
An astronomer, a physicist and a mathematician (it is said) were holidaying in Scotland. Glancing from a train window, they observed a black sheep in the middle of a field.
"How interesting," observed the astronomer, "all scottish sheep are black!"
To which the physicist responded, "No, no! Some Scottish sheep are black!"
The mathematician gazed heavenward in supplication, and then intoned, "In Scotland there exists at least one field, containing at least one sheep, at least one side of which is black."
Upon which the others chorused "Shut up you ****ing pedant!" and hurled him out the train window.
For the love of God, please learn to spell "ridiculous"!!!
And who showed that Lemma 8 of the proof is incorrent? G. Tenenbaum of the Institut Élie Cartan in Nancy, so it's a French Fried Proof.
A Better headline would be:
Two Prime Proof Poofed
proffered paired prime proof postulated pants
Before they patch the problem, what are the chances that someone will develop an exploit? And will that let them root the system?
"however mathematicians remain hopeful that the proof can be corrected."
Sounds a lot like Republicans.