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Two mathematicians just solved a centuries-old prime number puzzle that experts thought impossible

Ellsworth Toohey
Dec 13, 2024
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Two mathematicians have cracked a centuries-old puzzle about prime numbers using an approach that no one saw coming. Ben Green of Oxford University and Mehtaab Sawhney of Columbia University proved there are infinitely many primes that can be written in a specific mathematical form, solving a problem that has stumped experts since …

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