Twin Prime Proof Proffered

HateBreeder writes "Continuing on a previous slashdot story regarding Arenstorf's proof of the existence of Infinitely Many Prime Twins, it seems that a hole has recently been found in the proof, however mathematicians remain hopeful that the proof can be corrected."

Get MIT on the line, ASAP!

[dabigpaybackski]

Who's that weird janitor kid who keeps doing equations on the hallway chalkboards? Maybe he could help out with this.

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[cheezemonkhai]

"Continuing on a previous slashdot story regarding Arenstorf's proof of the existence of Infinitely Many First Posts, it seems that a hole has recently been found in the proof, however mathematicians remain hopeful that the proof can be corrected."

Tenenbaum?

[Vo0k]

While Arenstorf's approach looks promising, an error in one particular step of the proof (...) has recently been pointed out by (...) Tenenbaum

Damn him, he claims Linux design is wrong too!

err, does he?

I love....

[Ingolfke]

scientists doing math,
slashdotters aimless wrath,
comments from stupid jerks,

and TWINS!

Re:Get MIT on the line, ASAP!

[Anonymous Coward]

Yeah, this is actually the one time that Matt Damon is ON TOPIC...

Re:Get MIT on the line, ASAP!

[Anonymous Coward]

since when has a maths nerd known where there are infinitely many prime twins!

Serious Error..

[D-Cypell]

[i]it seems that a hole has recently been found in the proof[/i]

He forgot to carry the 1

Re:I love....

[bhima]

That is just beautiful! This deserves more than +5 funny as it is the best post I've read on /. in months...

Oh wait, that sort says something about us doesn't it.

Math humor

[Brian Kendig]

At a conference, a mathematician proves a theorem. Someone in the audience interrupts him: "That proof must be wrong. I have a counterexample to your theorem." The speaker replies, "I don't care, I have another proof for it."

Please don't start...

[Lifewish]

An example of the maths humour genre from my Director of Studies (who was pissed at the time):

An astronomer, a physicist and a mathematician (it is said) were holidaying in Scotland. Glancing from a train window, they observed a black sheep in the middle of a field.

"How interesting," observed the astronomer, "all scottish sheep are black!"

To which the physicist responded, "No, no! Some Scottish sheep are black!"

The mathematician gazed heavenward in supplication, and then intoned, "In Scotland there exists at least one field, containing at least one sheep, at least one side of which is black."

Upon which the others chorused "Shut up you ****ing pedant!" and hurled him out the train window. ...it seemed funnier at the time. Specially after the Zorb's Lemon joke.

Re:Math humor

[Anonymous Coward]

And here's how to confuse a mathematician:

Let odds be even...

Re:Withdrawn

[kimmerin]

And who showed that Lemma 8 of the proof is incorrent? G. Tenenbaum of the Institut Élie Cartan in Nancy, so it's a French Fried Proof.

Re:I like a good alliteration as much as anyone

[palantir]

A Better headline would be:
Two Prime Proof Poofed

proffered paired prime proof poofed

[dominux]

proffered paired prime proof postulated pants

Re:Please don't start...

[RichDice]

Here's the joke that completely killed me and my friends doing physics & astronomy degress back just a tad more than a decade ago...

There once was a very wealthy man who enjoyed greatly betting on horse races. As he was motivated to win in all his endeavours, he desired to find a perfect method for placing his bets at the track.

To this end, he hired three experts whom he set upon the task of finding a perfect betting system. They were a biologist, a statistician, and a physicist. He gave them a year to investigate and told them to present their results after the year was up.

When it was time to present the results, he gathered them together.

"Did you find a perfect system?" he asked the biologist. "I studied everything I could about the muscular power, reflex reaction time, diet, training, and many other things. Unfortunately the variables were just too complicated and there were too many of them, so I couldn't find a perfect system."

Not a problem, thought the man, I have two other experts. So he asked the statistician if he had found a perfect system.

"I analyzed every piece of data that I could: track condition, weather conditions, time of day, jockey, competitors, age of the horse... just everything. I ran every regression I could. But there were just too many variables and I couldn't develop a predicable model from them."

Now the man was concerned, so with hestitation he asked the physicist if he had discovered a perfect system for betting on horses at the race.

"Yes!" exclaimed the physicist, "I have!"

"Terrific!" said the man.

"Well," started the physicist slowly, "there is one problem. It only works for spherical horses moving through a vacuum."

Cheers,
Richard

Re:Withdrawn

[TheOtherChimeraTwin]

Before they patch the problem, what are the chances that someone will develop an exploit? And will that let them root the system?

Re:proffered paired prime proof poofed

[HMA2000]

Previously Proffered Paired Prime Proof Pwn3d!

Correcting 'proof'?

[Rirath.com]

"however mathematicians remain hopeful that the proof can be corrected."

Sounds a lot like Republicans.