Skip to Navigation about Plus support Plus Plus sponsors subscribe to Plus terms of use Search this site : Twins move within reach by Marianne Freiberger Submitted by mf344 on June 25, 2013 in number theory twin prime conjecture twin primes Agreeing to pay 50,000 for something worth 2 wouldn't win you any haggling competitions . In mathematics , however , a similar result can bring you international acclaim . Mathematics can be a lot like haggling : if you can't get the answer you want , you try to get as close as possible . In the case of the famous twin prime conjecture the answer you want is 2. Recent results claim to have managed just over 50,000, but they are causing quite a stir . That's because the gap between 2 and 50,000 is a whole lot smaller than the gap between 50,000 and
Skip to Navigation about Plus support Plus Plus sponsors subscribe to Plus terms of use Search this site : A very old problem turns 20 by Marianne Freiberger Submitted by mf344 on June 24, 2013 in Fermat's Last Theorem number theory I think I'll stop here . This is how , on 23rd of June 1993, Andrew Wiles ended his series of lectures at the Isaac Newton Institute in Cambridge The applause , so witnesses report , was thunderous : Wiles had just delivered a proof of a result that had haunted mathematicians for over 350 years : Fermat's last theorem Andrew . Wiles Wiles’ announcement now celebrates its twentieth birthday , but the result itself is linked to maths that is over 2000 years old . Most people have heard of Pythagoras’ theorem : if and are the sides of a right-angled triangle ,
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