Graduate Student’s Side Project Proves Prime Number Conjecture

As the atoms of arithmetic, prime numbers have always occupied a special place on the number line. Now, Jared Duker Lichtman, a 26-year-old graduate student at the University of Oxford, has resolved a well-known conjecture, establishing another facet of what makes the primes special — and, in some sense, even optimal. “It gives you a larger context to see in what ways the primes are unique…

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