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Twin Prime Proof Proffered

Posted by samzenpus on from the is-this-going-to-be-on-the-test dept.

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."

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  1. Withdrawn by Agret · · Score: 5, Informative

    The paper has since been withdrawn with the reason "A serious error has been found in the paper, specifically, Lemma 8 is incorrect."

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  2. I like a good alliteration as much as anyone by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    Probably more than most. Sadly, that's not what proffered means.

    It was proffered a long time ago. The news is that it doesn't work. May I suggest punctured?

  3. Get MIT on the line, ASAP! by dabigpaybackski · · Score: 5, Funny
    Who's that weird janitor kid who keeps doing equations on the hallway chalkboards? Maybe he could help out with this.

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    1. Re:Get MIT on the line, ASAP! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

      since when has a maths nerd known where there are infinitely many prime twins!

  4. /. version by cheezemonkhai · · Score: 5, Funny

    "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."

  5. old news by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    The mistake was found back in June

    1. Re:old news by gnalle · · Score: 5, Interesting
      A simple Google search reveals that the story is a dupe. Search the old threads for cool comments to boost your karma :)

      When I get more time I want to make a perl script that wgets slashdot.org once an hour and searches google for dupes. It is probably enough to test if any links from present slashdot stories have appeared on the site before, but perhaps I can find a way to pick out relevant title words. Once my script has found a dupe it should pick a few highrated comments from the old thread and repost them :)

  6. I love.... by Ingolfke · · Score: 5, Funny

    scientists doing math,
    slashdotters aimless wrath,
    comments from stupid jerks,

    and TWINS!

  7. Re:Not quite ready for prime time by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Umm.... cryptography? You ever use SSL?

  8. Please don't start... by Lifewish · · Score: 5, Funny

    An example of the maths humour genre from my Director of Studies (who was pissed at the time):

    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. ...it seemed funnier at the time. Specially after the Zorb's Lemon joke.

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