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I knew about the Wiki http://michaelnielsen.org/polymath1/index.php?title=Bounded_gaps_between_primes http://michaelnielsen.org/polymath1/index.php?title=Bounde
by mrcactu5 13y ago
I knew about the Wiki http://michaelnielsen.org/polymath1/index.php?title=Bounded_gaps_between_primes http://michaelnielsen.org/polymath1/index.php?title=Bounded_...
However, I did not know about the solo paper
http://arxiv.org/abs/1311.4600 http://arxiv.org/abs/1311.4600
In their celebrated paper [5], Goldston,
Pintz and Yıldırım introduced a new method for counting
tuples of primes, and this allowed
them to show that [eq 1.1]
The recent breakthrough of Zhang [9] managed
to extend this work to prove [eq 1.2]
"Sieve methods" say integer properties like divisibility are essentially random. This is how we can show two integer randomly chosen are relativley prime with probabilty pi²/6= 0.608...
http://math.stackexchange.com/questions/64498/probability-that-two-random-numbers-are-coprime http://math.stackexchange.com/questions/64498/probability-th...
Here we are trying to count primes separated by certain small gaps.