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A Numerical Mystery from the 19th Century Finally Gets Solved

• Stratoscope 4y ago
  > Two mathematicians have proven Patterson’s conjecture, which was designed to explain a strange pattern in sums involving prime numbers. A summary from Caltech: https://www.caltech.edu/about/news/caltech-mathematicians-solve-19th-century-number-riddle https://www.caltech.edu/about/news/caltech-mathematicians-so...