Comment by jmclnx
Nice read and explains what Yitang Zhang did in a manner I can almost understand!
Everytime I hear about Yitang Zhang, I cannot help but be amazed by his accomplishment.
Nice read and explains what Yitang Zhang did in a manner I can almost understand!
Everytime I hear about Yitang Zhang, I cannot help but be amazed by his accomplishment.
It's really weird. This article contains the sentence
> At just 18 years old Gauss used a heptadecagon to solve a classic problem that had stumped mathematicians for more than 2,000 years.
where the words "stumped mathematicians" are hyperlinked to the article "Prime Number Puzzle Has Stumped Mathematicians for More Than a Century" that you're talking about, even though there's no real connection at all between the problem Gauss solved and the one Yitang Zhang worked on -- they've just linked the two because of the word "stumped" it looks like. (Well prime numbers turn up in both but the problems are not really related beyond that.)
Zhang's work is not mentioned in this article, so I'm assuming you clicked through to this one:
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/prime-number-puzz...