Skip Montanaro <s...@pobox.com> writes: > Very cool indeed. In the comments was a link to an XKCD cartoon. Its > tool tip mentioned "twin primes". Looked that up. Google pointed (of > course) at Wikipedia. Read that. Backed up to the Google Search, and > noticed there is a news item from 15 hours ago that an unknown > mathematician at the University of New Hampshire has proven the twin > primes conjecture: > http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2013/05/twin-primes/ > > This is nothing to do with the original post. It's just amazing to me > how short the distance between one very interesting topic on the net > and something almost unrelated can be.
AIUI the twin primes conjecture hasn't been proved. But a significant related fact - that there's an infinitude of primes no more that N apart where N <~ 70,000,000. That might not sound like a lot of progress - but the point is that the existence of some finite bound is very significant. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
