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Dude working @Subway @ 43yo is one of world's best mathematician

https://www.quantamagazine.org/20150402-prime-proof-zhang-in...
plum adulterous crackhouse coffee pot
  04/16/15
*sandwich autist
razzle-dazzle hairless market
  05/03/15
I had the following written on my food truck all day yesterd...
Arrogant House Famous Landscape Painting
  05/03/15
evan39 can still maek it
Navy boyish casino
  04/16/15
Sounds like that asshole Daniel Brou was his adviser
Supple Sweet Tailpipe Dilemma
  04/16/15
Dude had a Phd, just was nojob pwned for a whiel.
Exciting judgmental corn cake
  04/16/15
Even so, he didn't get a PhD until age 36. People usually s...
plum adulterous crackhouse coffee pot
  04/16/15
30 is young!
Chartreuse mildly autistic parlour electric furnace
  04/16/15
I'd probably be head chief of math in his country.
Pink tantric marketing idea
  04/16/15
he wasn't even asst manager?
Bateful sticky public bath
  04/16/15
a modern day Bill Sidis
Irradiated hell roommate
  04/16/15
lolno. sidis never actually accomplished anything.
gaped racy place of business dysfunction
  04/16/15
He realized the truth about the origins of the American Indi...
At-the-ready self-absorbed base immigrant
  04/21/15
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contagious nursing home
  05/03/15
They should have him in an ad with Jared
Appetizing Kitchen
  04/16/15
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Bateful sticky public bath
  04/16/15
"By 2009, he had turned his attention to the twin prime...
Bateful sticky public bath
  04/16/15
sounds like he was doing more good for society making subs
lascivious senate
  04/16/15
(xo 2015
plum adulterous crackhouse coffee pot
  04/16/15
Cr
brilliant national
  04/21/15
what is unclear? no one could prove the following statement ...
Tan roast beef stain
  04/21/15
And if this was proven, what the fuck would happen next?
Peach jap
  05/03/15
his scholarship on queuing theory is prolific
sable gas station mad cow disease
  04/16/15
this proves that brilliant people are drawn to menial jobs ...
Mint state associate
  04/16/15
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stimulating locale
  05/03/15
"this proves that brilliant people are drawn to menial ...
Hairraiser ticket booth
  05/03/15
All and all, a 180 story. I feel good for him.
indecent vivacious jew
  04/21/15
could this bro even get interviews at top quant hedge funds?
Vibrant Alpha
  04/21/15
so he proved there is always a next prime number, at least w...
Vigorous area
  04/21/15
Nope, what you wrote is actually false
Tan roast beef stain
  05/03/15
no. 1. it's very easy to prove that there are infinitely m...
orchid athletic conference sex offender
  05/03/15
lol.
grizzly provocative partner
  05/03/15
theory of primes seems useless if you're an xo 2015 prole or...
plum adulterous crackhouse coffee pot
  05/03/15
LJL. "The theory of primes" is useful for encrypti...
Tan roast beef stain
  05/03/15
LJL. you're an autistic loser. the point is that the polis...
plum adulterous crackhouse coffee pot
  05/03/15
XOers aren't qualified to judge but neither are you which is...
Tan roast beef stain
  05/03/15
i didn't say i was particularly qualified, just that results...
plum adulterous crackhouse coffee pot
  05/03/15
lol @ you thinking I heard of the prime number theorem from ...
Tan roast beef stain
  05/04/15
fgt
plum adulterous crackhouse coffee pot
  05/03/15
(pensive feeling massively inadequate after reading this pos...
mind-boggling infuriating theater stage halford
  05/03/15
lol, ty also lol @ "nowag"
Exhilarant Saffron Hairy Legs
  05/03/15
"This is a significant result because when you think ab...
Tan roast beef stain
  05/03/15
cr. i didn't mean to imply the average distance between 2 pr...
orchid athletic conference sex offender
  05/03/15
The figure I quoted is from the prime number theorem which i...
Tan roast beef stain
  05/03/15
lol @ tao's minions' fingerprints all over shitwiki
orchid athletic conference sex offender
  05/03/15
oh i get it. wow, that means there will always be primes tha...
Vigorous area
  05/03/15
you are right 2 scoff at the bound. in fact, 70 million is s...
orchid athletic conference sex offender
  05/03/15
lol.... yeah considering infinity and all that, 70 millio...
Vigorous area
  05/03/15
In honor of this bro, a special 180: (17,051,887)-(17,051...
Exhilarant Saffron Hairy Legs
  05/03/15
...
Hairraiser ticket booth
  05/03/15
holy shit r those primes
orchid athletic conference sex offender
  05/03/15
http://www.bigprimes.net/archive/prime/10945/
plum adulterous crackhouse coffee pot
  05/03/15
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Heady khaki main people windowlicker
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Date: April 16th, 2015 9:48 AM
Author: plum adulterous crackhouse coffee pot

https://www.quantamagazine.org/20150402-prime-proof-zhang-interview/

I know this is old, but holy shit. He was literally a 43 yo Subway sandwich artist, and now he is one of the world's most respected mathematicians.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2856558&forum_id=2#27701114)



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Date: May 3rd, 2015 9:05 PM
Author: razzle-dazzle hairless market

*sandwich autist

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2856558&forum_id=2#27815333)



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Date: May 3rd, 2015 9:08 PM
Author: Arrogant House Famous Landscape Painting

I had the following written on my food truck all day yesterday:

"Bootstrappers Food Truck: The Sandwich Autists"

look up my previous threads to see a pic of that.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2856558&forum_id=2#27815365)



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Date: April 16th, 2015 9:54 AM
Author: Navy boyish casino

evan39 can still maek it

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2856558&forum_id=2#27701136)



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Date: April 16th, 2015 10:00 AM
Author: Supple Sweet Tailpipe Dilemma

Sounds like that asshole Daniel Brou was his adviser

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2856558&forum_id=2#27701163)



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Date: April 16th, 2015 10:06 AM
Author: Exciting judgmental corn cake

Dude had a Phd, just was nojob pwned for a whiel.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2856558&forum_id=2#27701193)



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Date: April 16th, 2015 10:45 AM
Author: plum adulterous crackhouse coffee pot

Even so, he didn't get a PhD until age 36. People usually say mathematicians are washed up after 30 or 35. And usually if you don't get at least a postdoc straight out of your PhD, you're considered det in the academic world.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2856558&forum_id=2#27701366)



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Date: April 16th, 2015 10:07 AM
Author: Chartreuse mildly autistic parlour electric furnace

30 is young!

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2856558&forum_id=2#27701200)



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Date: April 16th, 2015 10:32 AM
Author: Pink tantric marketing idea

I'd probably be head chief of math in his country.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2856558&forum_id=2#27701316)



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Date: April 16th, 2015 10:33 AM
Author: Bateful sticky public bath

he wasn't even asst manager?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2856558&forum_id=2#27701319)



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Date: April 16th, 2015 10:54 AM
Author: Irradiated hell roommate

a modern day Bill Sidis

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2856558&forum_id=2#27701394)



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Date: April 16th, 2015 11:31 AM
Author: gaped racy place of business dysfunction

lolno. sidis never actually accomplished anything.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2856558&forum_id=2#27701607)



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Date: April 21st, 2015 5:58 PM
Author: At-the-ready self-absorbed base immigrant

He realized the truth about the origins of the American Indian

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2856558&forum_id=2#27732369)



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Date: May 3rd, 2015 9:37 PM
Author: contagious nursing home



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2856558&forum_id=2#27815638)



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Date: April 16th, 2015 11:34 AM
Author: Appetizing Kitchen

They should have him in an ad with Jared

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2856558&forum_id=2#27701626)



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Date: April 16th, 2015 11:34 AM
Author: Bateful sticky public bath



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2856558&forum_id=2#27701631)



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Date: April 16th, 2015 11:34 AM
Author: Bateful sticky public bath

"By 2009, he had turned his attention to the twin primes conjecture, which postulates that there are an infinite number of prime number pairs with a difference of two. Examples of twin prime pairs include 5 and 7, 11 and 13, and 17 and 19, but no one could prove that these pairs continue to exist all the way up the number line. In fact, no one could prove that there is any bounded prime gap at all, that primes don’t just grow infinitely far apart."

lololwut.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2856558&forum_id=2#27701630)



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Date: April 16th, 2015 11:41 AM
Author: lascivious senate

sounds like he was doing more good for society making subs

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2856558&forum_id=2#27701676)



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Date: April 16th, 2015 11:44 AM
Author: plum adulterous crackhouse coffee pot

(xo 2015

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2856558&forum_id=2#27701698)



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Date: April 21st, 2015 7:00 PM
Author: brilliant national

Cr

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2856558&forum_id=2#27732685)



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Date: April 21st, 2015 6:10 PM
Author: Tan roast beef stain

what is unclear? no one could prove the following statement until him: There is a number K such that there are an infinite number of pairs of primes p_1 and p_2 such that p_2 = p_1 + K.

"Twin primes" are when K = 2. If I remember right, people have proved there is a K <= 246 for which that's true.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2856558&forum_id=2#27732449)



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Date: May 3rd, 2015 9:34 PM
Author: Peach jap

And if this was proven, what the fuck would happen next?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2856558&forum_id=2#27815594)



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Date: April 16th, 2015 11:43 AM
Author: sable gas station mad cow disease

his scholarship on queuing theory is prolific

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2856558&forum_id=2#27701692)



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Date: April 16th, 2015 12:10 PM
Author: Mint state associate

this proves that brilliant people are drawn to menial jobs

it makes sense, too. it allows them to develop their mental abilities because they don't have to waste brain power earning a living. remember this next time you get upset with the cashier at a fast food restaurant. he just might be the next Einstein!

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2856558&forum_id=2#27701811)



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Date: May 3rd, 2015 9:25 PM
Author: stimulating locale



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2856558&forum_id=2#27815498)



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Date: May 3rd, 2015 9:36 PM
Author: Hairraiser ticket booth

"this proves that brilliant people are drawn to menial jobs"

no it doesn't

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2856558&forum_id=2#27815621)



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Date: April 21st, 2015 7:13 PM
Author: indecent vivacious jew

All and all, a 180 story. I feel good for him.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2856558&forum_id=2#27732746)



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Date: April 21st, 2015 7:25 PM
Author: Vibrant Alpha

could this bro even get interviews at top quant hedge funds?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2856558&forum_id=2#27732808)



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Date: April 21st, 2015 7:44 PM
Author: Vigorous area

so he proved there is always a next prime number, at least within whatevermillion integers? big fucking deal, im sure im gonna sleep better now.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2856558&forum_id=2#27732909)



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Date: May 3rd, 2015 9:10 PM
Author: Tan roast beef stain

Nope, what you wrote is actually false

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2856558&forum_id=2#27815375)



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Date: May 3rd, 2015 9:16 PM
Author: orchid athletic conference sex offender

no.

1. it's very easy to prove that there are infinitely many prime numbers period. you learn how to prove it in any number theory class

2. what the nowag proved is that there are infinitely many pairs of prime numbers that are less than 70 million apart from each other.

This is a significant result because when you think about it you might think that primes drift farther and farther apart from each other the farther out you go to infinity. The nowag proved this is wrong

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2856558&forum_id=2#27815434)



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Date: May 3rd, 2015 9:18 PM
Author: grizzly provocative partner

lol.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2856558&forum_id=2#27815446)



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Date: May 3rd, 2015 9:23 PM
Author: plum adulterous crackhouse coffee pot

theory of primes seems useless if you're an xo 2015 prole or polisci shithead, but it's a backbone of ecommerce and will probably be 1 billion times more useful than anything you'll ever accomplish.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2856558&forum_id=2#27815478)



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Date: May 3rd, 2015 9:26 PM
Author: Tan roast beef stain

LJL. "The theory of primes" is useful for encryption but his work has absolutely no relevance to that.

He's still awesome

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2856558&forum_id=2#27815509)



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Date: May 3rd, 2015 9:31 PM
Author: plum adulterous crackhouse coffee pot

LJL. you're an autistic loser. the point is that the polisci shitheads on this website wouldn't find use for any prime number results at all, let alone such a significant. xoers aren't qualified to judge the future usefulness of his work.

also, you're a fucking tool for putting "theory of primes" in quotation marks like that.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2856558&forum_id=2#27815570)



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Date: May 3rd, 2015 9:37 PM
Author: Tan roast beef stain

XOers aren't qualified to judge but neither are you which is pretty obvious from your posts (JJC, I'm guessing?). It's funny that you think actually knowing what I'm talking about makes me an autistic loser



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2856558&forum_id=2#27815623)



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Date: May 3rd, 2015 9:39 PM
Author: plum adulterous crackhouse coffee pot

i didn't say i was particularly qualified, just that results in that field have proven incredibly useful. why is that so hard for you to understand? are you ESL or just extremely autistic?

btw, you're not particularly qualified to judge it either, despite your wikipedia search abilities.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2856558&forum_id=2#27815656)



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Date: May 4th, 2015 1:08 AM
Author: Tan roast beef stain

lol @ you thinking I heard of the prime number theorem from wikipedia. I learned more mathematics this weekend than you did your entire life. Enjoy dat gaped asshole, ignoramus

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2856558&forum_id=2#27817184)



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Date: May 3rd, 2015 9:41 PM
Author: plum adulterous crackhouse coffee pot

fgt

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2856558&forum_id=2#27815692)



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Date: May 3rd, 2015 9:19 PM
Author: mind-boggling infuriating theater stage halford

(pensive feeling massively inadequate after reading this post)

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2856558&forum_id=2#27815450)



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Date: May 3rd, 2015 9:24 PM
Author: Exhilarant Saffron Hairy Legs

lol, ty

also lol @ "nowag"



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2856558&forum_id=2#27815487)



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Date: May 3rd, 2015 9:22 PM
Author: Tan roast beef stain

"This is a significant result because when you think about it you might think that primes drift farther and farther apart from each other the farther out you go to infinity. The nowag proved this is wrong"

That's also not exactly true. The density of primes goes to 0 (that is, count the number of primes less than N. that number will be about N/log(N)). He just proved that there is an exceptional set of pairs of primes whose difference is bounded uniformly by something big (but was later reduced to something like a few hundred)

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2856558&forum_id=2#27815475)



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Date: May 3rd, 2015 9:27 PM
Author: orchid athletic conference sex offender

cr. i didn't mean to imply the average distance between 2 primes couldn't grow arbitrarily large. I still didn't know it DID which is what you're saying

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2856558&forum_id=2#27815528)



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Date: May 3rd, 2015 9:29 PM
Author: Tan roast beef stain

The figure I quoted is from the prime number theorem which is one of the GOATUS theorems of all time. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prime_number_theorem

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2856558&forum_id=2#27815548)



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Date: May 3rd, 2015 9:37 PM
Author: orchid athletic conference sex offender

lol @ tao's minions' fingerprints all over shitwiki

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2856558&forum_id=2#27815631)



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Date: May 3rd, 2015 9:32 PM
Author: Vigorous area

oh i get it. wow, that means there will always be primes that are pretty close to each other..well, if 70 million counts as close. wow, that is actually quite mind bending in and of itself to think about. that blows my mind.

edit: wait, whats this twin prime shit? ok im a retard, i have to admit. i wish i was smarter.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2856558&forum_id=2#27815577)



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Date: May 3rd, 2015 9:36 PM
Author: orchid athletic conference sex offender

you are right 2 scoff at the bound. in fact, 70 million is such a big number that some mystics &legal scholars have considered it 2 be bigger than infinity

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2856558&forum_id=2#27815622)



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Date: May 3rd, 2015 9:38 PM
Author: Vigorous area

lol....

yeah considering infinity and all that, 70 million IS quite a large number.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2856558&forum_id=2#27815644)



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Date: May 3rd, 2015 9:28 PM
Author: Exhilarant Saffron Hairy Legs

In honor of this bro, a special 180:

(17,051,887)-(17,051,707)



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2856558&forum_id=2#27815531)



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Date: May 3rd, 2015 9:40 PM
Author: Hairraiser ticket booth



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2856558&forum_id=2#27815675)



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Date: May 3rd, 2015 9:48 PM
Author: orchid athletic conference sex offender

holy shit r those primes

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2856558&forum_id=2#27815791)



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Date: May 3rd, 2015 9:59 PM
Author: plum adulterous crackhouse coffee pot

http://www.bigprimes.net/archive/prime/10945/

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2856558&forum_id=2#27815876)



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Date: May 3rd, 2015 10:08 PM
Author: Heady khaki main people windowlicker



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2856558&forum_id=2#27815929)