Graduate Student's Side Project Proves Prime Number Conjecture

14/09/2022 12 min
Graduate Student's Side Project Proves Prime Number Conjecture

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Jared Duker Lichtman, 26, has proved a longstanding conjecture relating prime numbers to a broad class of “primitive” sets. To his adviser, it came as a “complete shock.” at quantamagazine.org. Music is “Thought Bot” by Audionautix.