Closing the gap [electronic resource] : the quest to understand prime numbers / Vicky Neale.

By:

Neale, Vicky

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2017.Description: 1 online resourceContent type:

text

Media type:

computer

Carrier type:

online resource

ISBN:

9780191092435
0191092436

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Additional physical formats: No titleDDC classification:

512.73 23

LOC classification:

QA246

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EBSCOhost

Summary: Mathematicians have recently made dramatic progress on the Twin Primes Conjecture, which asserts that there are infinitely many pairs of prime numbers that differ by 2. This book will describe two stories: that of the recent work on the Twin Primes Conjecture, and in parallel the related ideas from the previous two thousand years of mathematics.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Mathematicians have recently made dramatic progress on the Twin Primes Conjecture, which asserts that there are infinitely many pairs of prime numbers that differ by 2. This book will describe two stories: that of the recent work on the Twin Primes Conjecture, and in parallel the related ideas from the previous two thousand years of mathematics.

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