Yitang Zhang’s Discovery – An Attack on the Twin-prime Conjecture [video]

Re:Yitang Zhang’s Discovery – An Attack on the Twin-prime Co... by colbyh on Thursday January 29, 2015 @03:25PM (#8968626)

That video was rather bad. If you want a better description of the Twin Prime Conjecture I think these guys do a much better job: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vkMXdShDdtY

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Re:Yitang Zhang’s Discovery – An Attack on the Twin-prime Co... by aaronbrethorst on Thursday January 29, 2015 @03:30PM (#8968644)

Or, if you'd rather read a 1 sentence description instead:

    [The twin prime conjecture] states: There are
    infinitely many primes p such that p + 2 is
    also prime.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twin_prime#History

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Re:Yitang Zhang’s Discovery – An Attack on the Twin-prime Co... by mzs on Thursday January 29, 2015 @04:16PM (#8968882)

Hmm… I preferred the New Yorker video. It was shorter, it very quickly explained the twin prime conjecture, then it explained what was proven recently, then gave some insight into how, and finally said the bound had been decreased since then.

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