Alphonse de Polignac

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Alphonse de Polignac (1817 – 1890) was a French mathematician. In 1849 he made Polignac's conjecture:

For every natural number k, there are infinitely many prime gaps of size 2k.

The case k = 1 is the twin prime conjecture.

[edit] See also

• de Polignac's formula

[edit] References

• Eric W. Weisstein, de Polignac's Conjecture at MathWorld.