primes as far as the eye can see, discrete continua
Chuck Wolber
chuckw at quantumlinux.com
Tue Dec 7 22:04:20 PST 2004
On Tue, 7 Dec 2004, Major Variola (ret) wrote:
>
> Saw in a recent _Science_ that Ben Green of Cambridge proved that for
> any N, there are an infinite number of evenly spaced progressions of
> primes that are N numbers long. He got a prize for that. Damn
> straight.
Where N is a natural number? How do they define "progression"? Depending
on that definition, there are some trivial counter examples.
-Chuck
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