Closing the gap : the quest to understand prime numbers / Vicky Neale.
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...
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| Online Access: | Electronic book from EBSCO |
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
| Published: | Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2017. |
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| 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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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (vi, 164 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780191092435 0191092436 |
| Access: | Access limited to authorized users. |