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Lucky Luciano

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12. Yes...the twin prime conjecture.

Tue Feb 2, 2021, 11:30 AM

Feb 2021

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No, I’m not really working on the twin prime conjecture!

Terry Tao has made substantial progress on it, but not done yet. Terry also made progress on the Goldbach conjecture that any even number > 2 is the sum of two primes. I like to mention these two unsolved problems that even an average third grader can understand!

The Riemann hypothesis is still far from being solved.

The Poincaré conjecture somewhat recently solved was closer to my wheelhouse when I was in grad school, but now I do applied stuff to earn a living.

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