Timeline for What is the oldest open problem in mathematics?
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| Jul 1, 2023 at 6:19 | comment | added | Sidharth Ghoshal | Google seems to suggest the following "The first statement of the twin prime conjecture was given in 1846 by French mathematician Alphonse de Polignac, who wrote that any even number can be expressed in infinite ways as the difference between two consecutive primes" | |
| Dec 31, 2022 at 12:35 | history | edited | Martin Sleziak | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
http -> https (the question was bumped anyway)
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| Apr 11, 2014 at 7:43 | comment | added | Włodzimierz Holsztyński | Did EB confuse twin primes with perfect numbers? | |
| Oct 2, 2010 at 18:25 | comment | added | Łukasz Grabowski | quick googling strongly suggests that you're right. It's amazing how prevalent in internet (and in EB!) the contrary information is. | |
| Oct 2, 2010 at 17:53 | comment | added | Franz Lemmermeyer | "which would make the twin prime conjecture remarkably old". There's nothing on twin primes in the Elements, or, as far as I know, in any of Euclid's other writings that have survived. | |
| Oct 2, 2010 at 17:28 | history | answered | Łukasz Grabowski | CC BY-SA 2.5 |