Alphonse de Polignac
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.
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1817 |
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1890 |
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