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Dude working @Subway @ 43yo is one of world's best mathematician
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Date: April 16th, 2015 9:48 AM Author: chest-beating roommate 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. |
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Date: May 3rd, 2015 9:05 PM Author: Crimson electric elastic band *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: Turquoise zippy fortuitous meteor corner 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. |
Date: April 16th, 2015 9:54 AM Author: Titillating Autistic Pisswyrm Halford 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: contagious locale 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: Big cocky son of senegal 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: chest-beating roommate 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: violent knife famous landscape painting 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: aphrodisiac orange messiness 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: Provocative state 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: high-end obsidian main people 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: Heady vermilion hunting ground rigpig 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: irradiated claret legal warrant double fault 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: pink box office preventive strike (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: splenetic idea he suggested legend 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: Provocative state (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: Provocative state "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. |
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Date: April 16th, 2015 11:41 AM Author: talking native 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: chest-beating roommate (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: Vigorous cruel-hearted lodge 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: shimmering gas station french chef 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. |
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Date: May 3rd, 2015 9:34 PM Author: passionate soggy clown 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: twinkling diverse ticket booth 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: Laughsome Casino 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! |
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Date: May 3rd, 2015 9:25 PM Author: Aromatic indecent laser beams (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: narrow-minded talented garrison "this proves that brilliant people are drawn to menial jobs"
no it doesn't |
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Date: April 21st, 2015 7:13 PM Author: Light resort 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: Soul-stirring principal's office half-breed 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: Spectacular scourge upon the earth 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: shimmering gas station french chef 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: ultramarine territorial genital piercing 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 |
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Date: May 3rd, 2015 9:18 PM Author: flatulent public bath associate 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: chest-beating roommate 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: shimmering gas station french chef LJL. "The theory of primes" is useful for encryption but his work has absolutely no relevance to that.
He's still awesome |
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Date: May 3rd, 2015 9:31 PM Author: chest-beating roommate 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. |
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Date: May 3rd, 2015 9:37 PM Author: shimmering gas station french chef 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
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Date: May 3rd, 2015 9:39 PM Author: chest-beating roommate 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. |
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Date: May 4th, 2015 1:08 AM Author: shimmering gas station french chef 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: chest-beating roommate 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: rambunctious galvanic parlour pocket flask (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: violet curious kitchen lol, ty
also lol @ "nowag"
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Date: May 3rd, 2015 9:22 PM Author: shimmering gas station french chef "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) |
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Date: May 3rd, 2015 9:27 PM Author: ultramarine territorial genital piercing 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: shimmering gas station french chef 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: ultramarine territorial genital piercing 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: Spectacular scourge upon the earth 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. |
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Date: May 3rd, 2015 9:36 PM Author: ultramarine territorial genital piercing 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: Spectacular scourge upon the earth lol....
yeah considering infinity and all that, 70 million IS quite a large number. |
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Date: May 3rd, 2015 9:28 PM Author: violet curious kitchen In honor of this bro, a special 180:
(17,051,887)-(17,051,707)
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Date: May 3rd, 2015 9:40 PM Author: narrow-minded talented garrison (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: ultramarine territorial genital piercing 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: chest-beating roommate 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: harsh mind-boggling persian (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2856558&forum_id=2#27815929) |