Oct 17, 2024
Big Advance on Simple-Sounding Math Problem Was a Century in the Making
Posted by Shubham Ghosh Roy in category: mathematics
On their own, addition and multiplication are simple operations. But the relationship between them is a complicated mystery that mathematicians are still working to understand.
A new proof about prime numbers illuminates the subtle relationship between addition and multiplication — and raises hopes for progress on the famous abc conjecture.