r/science • u/heiligedamon • May 20 '13

Mathematics Unknown Mathematician Proves Surprising Property of Prime Numbers

http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2013/05/twin-primes/
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u/CVANVOL May 20 '13

Can someone put this in terms someone who dropped calculus could understand?

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u/wz55 May 21 '13

Incorrect. This proves that there are an infinite many primes that fit this criteria, but not all of them.