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Mathematician Claims Proof of Connection between Prime Numbers
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RE: Mathematician Claims Proof of Connection between Prime Numbers



It's been decades since I considered myself a mathematician, but I still love math, even though I am completely incapable in my dotage.

Thank you for bringing this result to my attention. I have no idea what it means, but I'm tingly all over.


Gödel wrote the following reply to Russell’s assertion in his autobiography, “Gödel turned out to be an unadulterated Platonist, and apparently believed that an eternal ‘not’ was laid up in heaven, where virtuous logicians might hope to meet it hereafter.”

Concerning my “unadulterated” Platonism, it is no more “unadulterated” than Russel’s own in 1921 when in the Introduction [to Mathematical Philosophy, 1919, p. 169] he said “[Logic is concerned with the real world just as truly as zoology, though with its more abstract and general features.]” At that time evidently Russell had met the “not’ even in this world, but later on under the influence of Wittgenstein he chose to overlook it.


"Every good mathematician is at least half a philosopher, and every good philosopher is at least half a mathematician."

Gottlob Frege


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RE: Mathematician Claims Proof of Connection between Prime Numbers - by Angrboda - September 13, 2012 at 7:09 am

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