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发帖数: 910 | 1 For his part, Zhang, who has been working on the paper since a key insight
came to him during a visit to a friend’s house last July, says he expects
that the paper’s mathematical machinery will allow for the value of 70
million to be pushed downwards. “We may reduce it,” he says.
Goldston does not think the value can be reduced all the way to 2 to prove
the twin prime conjecture. But he says the very fact that there is a number
at all is a huge breakthrough. “I was doubtful I would ever live to see
this result,” he says. |
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