Graduate Student's Side Project Proves Prime Number Conjecture - Quanta Magazine

Jared Duker Lichtman, 26, has proved a longstanding conjecture relating prime numbers to a broad class of “primitive” sets. To his adviser, it came as a “complete shock.”

Over the decades, mathematicians made partial progress toward a proof. They showed, for instance, that the conjecture was true for particular types of primitive sets. Still, it felt like we werent r… [+5669 chars]

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