Mathematicians Make a Major Discovery About Prime Numbers

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Paul Erdős, left, and Terence Tao discussing math in 1985. This past August, Tao and four other mathematicians proved an old Erdős conjecture, marking the first major advance in 76 years in understanding how far apart prime numbers can be.

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Waylan Choy
3:18 PM Dec 22 2014

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Waylan Choy
3:18 PM Dec 22 2014

Neat!

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Adam Rifkin
10:45 PM Dec 22 2014

Mathematicians Make a Major Discovery About Prime Numbers

Waylan Choy stashed this in Do the Math!

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