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Unknown Mathematician Proves Surprising Property of Prime Numbers | Wired Science | Wired.com

An unknown mathematician, Yitang Zhang, has revolutionized his field and helped move forward a 2,000-year-old conjecture about prime numbers. His counterintuitive findings show that special pairs of primes, called twin primes, can never be more than 70 million places away from one another.

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