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."

Re:Tenenbaum?

[nbert]

G. Tenenbaum != Andrew S. Tanenbaum

Re:twin primes.

[Moderatbastard]

maximum and minimums grow ever higher

It's maxima and minima. And I would have thought that the latter tend to grow ever lower...

Re:Not quite ready for prime time

[Anonymous Coward]

Umm.... cryptography? You ever use SSL?

Poor hyperlinking

[BarryNorton]

While Slashdot stories (unlike most of the Flash-based web) can be a good example of hyperlinking, this story (after the first link) was appalling - why was the link to the withdrawal placed around the words 'infinitiely many twin primes'? Not only did I immediately wonder why there seemed to be no link to evidence of the withdrawal, but there was no direct link to explain what the twin prime conjecture is...

Treat any -ology the same?

[Anonymous Coward]

Is this intended to be a positive or negative treatment of -ology words in general.

Either way it is silly. We have:

Numerology

Geology

Astrology

Zoology

Scientology

Psycology

Phrenology

Biology

Theology

Anaesthesiology

Do you really advocate treating all these the same?

Re:twin primes.

[Rufus88]

It is a proved fact that there are arbitrarily large gaps in the prime sequence (i.e. infinitely large gaps).

Yes and no. "Arbitrarily large" is not the same thing as "infinitely large". If there were an infinitely large gap, there couldn't be a subsequent prime.

Good thing we are all really nerds here

[Hao Wu]

Luckily since we are all true "geeks" here at Slashdot, we can understand this math as we read through it. It's not like we're all posers who are really only interested in trendy politics, media, and video games.