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Dude working @Subway @ 43yo is one of world's best mathematician

https://www.quantamagazine.org/20150402-prime-proof-zhang-in...
brindle hairraiser rigpig
  04/16/15
*sandwich autist
Plum resort
  05/03/15
I had the following written on my food truck all day yesterd...
passionate marketing idea stag film
  05/03/15
evan39 can still maek it
Poppy boistinker church
  04/16/15
Sounds like that asshole Daniel Brou was his adviser
Amethyst Trip Quadroon
  04/16/15
Dude had a Phd, just was nojob pwned for a whiel.
olive sinister den gay wizard
  04/16/15
Even so, he didn't get a PhD until age 36. People usually s...
brindle hairraiser rigpig
  04/16/15
30 is young!
Dull charismatic wrinkle
  04/16/15
I'd probably be head chief of math in his country.
Insanely Creepy Pink Brunch Blood Rage
  04/16/15
he wasn't even asst manager?
magenta comical rehab
  04/16/15
a modern day Bill Sidis
Primrose thriller trailer park pozpig
  04/16/15
lolno. sidis never actually accomplished anything.
Splenetic racy pocket flask pit
  04/16/15
He realized the truth about the origins of the American Indi...
fragrant naked school cafeteria macaca
  04/21/15
...
Chestnut gaping
  05/03/15
They should have him in an ad with Jared
Glassy native
  04/16/15
...
magenta comical rehab
  04/16/15
"By 2009, he had turned his attention to the twin prime...
magenta comical rehab
  04/16/15
sounds like he was doing more good for society making subs
cerebral toaster
  04/16/15
(xo 2015
brindle hairraiser rigpig
  04/16/15
Cr
Wonderful ruby shitlib
  04/21/15
what is unclear? no one could prove the following statement ...
Misunderstood indirect expression
  04/21/15
And if this was proven, what the fuck would happen next?
aggressive vivacious hissy fit new version
  05/03/15
his scholarship on queuing theory is prolific
emerald talking private investor
  04/16/15
this proves that brilliant people are drawn to menial jobs ...
onyx nowag doctorate
  04/16/15
...
cobalt jew
  05/03/15
"this proves that brilliant people are drawn to menial ...
Bateful yarmulke goyim
  05/03/15
All and all, a 180 story. I feel good for him.
hilarious autistic public bath
  04/21/15
could this bro even get interviews at top quant hedge funds?
histrionic step-uncle's house kitty cat
  04/21/15
so he proved there is always a next prime number, at least w...
marvelous indecent meetinghouse main people
  04/21/15
Nope, what you wrote is actually false
Misunderstood indirect expression
  05/03/15
no. 1. it's very easy to prove that there are infinitely m...
diverse corner striped hyena
  05/03/15
lol.
Heady godawful lodge
  05/03/15
theory of primes seems useless if you're an xo 2015 prole or...
brindle hairraiser rigpig
  05/03/15
LJL. "The theory of primes" is useful for encrypti...
Misunderstood indirect expression
  05/03/15
LJL. you're an autistic loser. the point is that the polis...
brindle hairraiser rigpig
  05/03/15
XOers aren't qualified to judge but neither are you which is...
Misunderstood indirect expression
  05/03/15
i didn't say i was particularly qualified, just that results...
brindle hairraiser rigpig
  05/03/15
lol @ you thinking I heard of the prime number theorem from ...
Misunderstood indirect expression
  05/04/15
fgt
brindle hairraiser rigpig
  05/03/15
(pensive feeling massively inadequate after reading this pos...
crystalline unhinged theater
  05/03/15
lol, ty also lol @ "nowag"
Tan irradiated ceo
  05/03/15
"This is a significant result because when you think ab...
Misunderstood indirect expression
  05/03/15
cr. i didn't mean to imply the average distance between 2 pr...
diverse corner striped hyena
  05/03/15
The figure I quoted is from the prime number theorem which i...
Misunderstood indirect expression
  05/03/15
lol @ tao's minions' fingerprints all over shitwiki
diverse corner striped hyena
  05/03/15
oh i get it. wow, that means there will always be primes tha...
marvelous indecent meetinghouse main people
  05/03/15
you are right 2 scoff at the bound. in fact, 70 million is s...
diverse corner striped hyena
  05/03/15
lol.... yeah considering infinity and all that, 70 millio...
marvelous indecent meetinghouse main people
  05/03/15
In honor of this bro, a special 180: (17,051,887)-(17,051...
Tan irradiated ceo
  05/03/15
...
Bateful yarmulke goyim
  05/03/15
holy shit r those primes
diverse corner striped hyena
  05/03/15
http://www.bigprimes.net/archive/prime/10945/
brindle hairraiser rigpig
  05/03/15
...
Mind-boggling spruce volcanic crater whorehouse
  05/03/15


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Date: April 16th, 2015 9:48 AM
Author: brindle hairraiser rigpig

https://www.quantamagazine.org/20150402-prime-proof-zhang-interview/

I know this is old, but holy shit. He was literally a 43 yo Subway sandwich artist, and now he is one of the world's most respected mathematicians.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2856558&forum_id=2#27701114)



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Date: May 3rd, 2015 9:05 PM
Author: Plum resort

*sandwich autist

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2856558&forum_id=2#27815333)



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Date: May 3rd, 2015 9:08 PM
Author: passionate marketing idea stag film

I had the following written on my food truck all day yesterday:

"Bootstrappers Food Truck: The Sandwich Autists"

look up my previous threads to see a pic of that.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2856558&forum_id=2#27815365)



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Date: April 16th, 2015 9:54 AM
Author: Poppy boistinker church

evan39 can still maek it

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2856558&forum_id=2#27701136)



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Date: April 16th, 2015 10:00 AM
Author: Amethyst Trip Quadroon

Sounds like that asshole Daniel Brou was his adviser

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2856558&forum_id=2#27701163)



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Date: April 16th, 2015 10:06 AM
Author: olive sinister den gay wizard

Dude had a Phd, just was nojob pwned for a whiel.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2856558&forum_id=2#27701193)



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Date: April 16th, 2015 10:45 AM
Author: brindle hairraiser rigpig

Even so, he didn't get a PhD until age 36. People usually say mathematicians are washed up after 30 or 35. And usually if you don't get at least a postdoc straight out of your PhD, you're considered det in the academic world.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2856558&forum_id=2#27701366)



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Date: April 16th, 2015 10:07 AM
Author: Dull charismatic wrinkle

30 is young!

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2856558&forum_id=2#27701200)



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Date: April 16th, 2015 10:32 AM
Author: Insanely Creepy Pink Brunch Blood Rage

I'd probably be head chief of math in his country.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2856558&forum_id=2#27701316)



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Date: April 16th, 2015 10:33 AM
Author: magenta comical rehab

he wasn't even asst manager?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2856558&forum_id=2#27701319)



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Date: April 16th, 2015 10:54 AM
Author: Primrose thriller trailer park pozpig

a modern day Bill Sidis

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2856558&forum_id=2#27701394)



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Date: April 16th, 2015 11:31 AM
Author: Splenetic racy pocket flask pit

lolno. sidis never actually accomplished anything.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2856558&forum_id=2#27701607)



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Date: April 21st, 2015 5:58 PM
Author: fragrant naked school cafeteria macaca

He realized the truth about the origins of the American Indian

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2856558&forum_id=2#27732369)



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Date: May 3rd, 2015 9:37 PM
Author: Chestnut gaping



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2856558&forum_id=2#27815638)



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Date: April 16th, 2015 11:34 AM
Author: Glassy native

They should have him in an ad with Jared

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2856558&forum_id=2#27701626)



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Date: April 16th, 2015 11:34 AM
Author: magenta comical rehab



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2856558&forum_id=2#27701631)



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Date: April 16th, 2015 11:34 AM
Author: magenta comical rehab

"By 2009, he had turned his attention to the twin primes conjecture, which postulates that there are an infinite number of prime number pairs with a difference of two. Examples of twin prime pairs include 5 and 7, 11 and 13, and 17 and 19, but no one could prove that these pairs continue to exist all the way up the number line. In fact, no one could prove that there is any bounded prime gap at all, that primes don’t just grow infinitely far apart."

lololwut.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2856558&forum_id=2#27701630)



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Date: April 16th, 2015 11:41 AM
Author: cerebral toaster

sounds like he was doing more good for society making subs

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2856558&forum_id=2#27701676)



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Date: April 16th, 2015 11:44 AM
Author: brindle hairraiser rigpig

(xo 2015

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2856558&forum_id=2#27701698)



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Date: April 21st, 2015 7:00 PM
Author: Wonderful ruby shitlib

Cr

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2856558&forum_id=2#27732685)



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Date: April 21st, 2015 6:10 PM
Author: Misunderstood indirect expression

what is unclear? no one could prove the following statement until him: There is a number K such that there are an infinite number of pairs of primes p_1 and p_2 such that p_2 = p_1 + K.

"Twin primes" are when K = 2. If I remember right, people have proved there is a K <= 246 for which that's true.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2856558&forum_id=2#27732449)



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Date: May 3rd, 2015 9:34 PM
Author: aggressive vivacious hissy fit new version

And if this was proven, what the fuck would happen next?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2856558&forum_id=2#27815594)



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Date: April 16th, 2015 11:43 AM
Author: emerald talking private investor

his scholarship on queuing theory is prolific

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2856558&forum_id=2#27701692)



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Date: April 16th, 2015 12:10 PM
Author: onyx nowag doctorate

this proves that brilliant people are drawn to menial jobs

it makes sense, too. it allows them to develop their mental abilities because they don't have to waste brain power earning a living. remember this next time you get upset with the cashier at a fast food restaurant. he just might be the next Einstein!

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2856558&forum_id=2#27701811)



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Date: May 3rd, 2015 9:25 PM
Author: cobalt jew



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2856558&forum_id=2#27815498)



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Date: May 3rd, 2015 9:36 PM
Author: Bateful yarmulke goyim

"this proves that brilliant people are drawn to menial jobs"

no it doesn't

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2856558&forum_id=2#27815621)



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Date: April 21st, 2015 7:13 PM
Author: hilarious autistic public bath

All and all, a 180 story. I feel good for him.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2856558&forum_id=2#27732746)



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Date: April 21st, 2015 7:25 PM
Author: histrionic step-uncle's house kitty cat

could this bro even get interviews at top quant hedge funds?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2856558&forum_id=2#27732808)



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Date: April 21st, 2015 7:44 PM
Author: marvelous indecent meetinghouse main people

so he proved there is always a next prime number, at least within whatevermillion integers? big fucking deal, im sure im gonna sleep better now.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2856558&forum_id=2#27732909)



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Date: May 3rd, 2015 9:10 PM
Author: Misunderstood indirect expression

Nope, what you wrote is actually false

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2856558&forum_id=2#27815375)



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Date: May 3rd, 2015 9:16 PM
Author: diverse corner striped hyena

no.

1. it's very easy to prove that there are infinitely many prime numbers period. you learn how to prove it in any number theory class

2. what the nowag proved is that there are infinitely many pairs of prime numbers that are less than 70 million apart from each other.

This is a significant result because when you think about it you might think that primes drift farther and farther apart from each other the farther out you go to infinity. The nowag proved this is wrong

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2856558&forum_id=2#27815434)



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Date: May 3rd, 2015 9:18 PM
Author: Heady godawful lodge

lol.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2856558&forum_id=2#27815446)



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Date: May 3rd, 2015 9:23 PM
Author: brindle hairraiser rigpig

theory of primes seems useless if you're an xo 2015 prole or polisci shithead, but it's a backbone of ecommerce and will probably be 1 billion times more useful than anything you'll ever accomplish.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2856558&forum_id=2#27815478)



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Date: May 3rd, 2015 9:26 PM
Author: Misunderstood indirect expression

LJL. "The theory of primes" is useful for encryption but his work has absolutely no relevance to that.

He's still awesome

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2856558&forum_id=2#27815509)



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Date: May 3rd, 2015 9:31 PM
Author: brindle hairraiser rigpig

LJL. you're an autistic loser. the point is that the polisci shitheads on this website wouldn't find use for any prime number results at all, let alone such a significant. xoers aren't qualified to judge the future usefulness of his work.

also, you're a fucking tool for putting "theory of primes" in quotation marks like that.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2856558&forum_id=2#27815570)



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Date: May 3rd, 2015 9:37 PM
Author: Misunderstood indirect expression

XOers aren't qualified to judge but neither are you which is pretty obvious from your posts (JJC, I'm guessing?). It's funny that you think actually knowing what I'm talking about makes me an autistic loser



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2856558&forum_id=2#27815623)



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Date: May 3rd, 2015 9:39 PM
Author: brindle hairraiser rigpig

i didn't say i was particularly qualified, just that results in that field have proven incredibly useful. why is that so hard for you to understand? are you ESL or just extremely autistic?

btw, you're not particularly qualified to judge it either, despite your wikipedia search abilities.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2856558&forum_id=2#27815656)



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Date: May 4th, 2015 1:08 AM
Author: Misunderstood indirect expression

lol @ you thinking I heard of the prime number theorem from wikipedia. I learned more mathematics this weekend than you did your entire life. Enjoy dat gaped asshole, ignoramus

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2856558&forum_id=2#27817184)



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Date: May 3rd, 2015 9:41 PM
Author: brindle hairraiser rigpig

fgt

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2856558&forum_id=2#27815692)



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Date: May 3rd, 2015 9:19 PM
Author: crystalline unhinged theater

(pensive feeling massively inadequate after reading this post)

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2856558&forum_id=2#27815450)



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Date: May 3rd, 2015 9:24 PM
Author: Tan irradiated ceo

lol, ty

also lol @ "nowag"



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2856558&forum_id=2#27815487)



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Date: May 3rd, 2015 9:22 PM
Author: Misunderstood indirect expression

"This is a significant result because when you think about it you might think that primes drift farther and farther apart from each other the farther out you go to infinity. The nowag proved this is wrong"

That's also not exactly true. The density of primes goes to 0 (that is, count the number of primes less than N. that number will be about N/log(N)). He just proved that there is an exceptional set of pairs of primes whose difference is bounded uniformly by something big (but was later reduced to something like a few hundred)

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2856558&forum_id=2#27815475)



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Date: May 3rd, 2015 9:27 PM
Author: diverse corner striped hyena

cr. i didn't mean to imply the average distance between 2 primes couldn't grow arbitrarily large. I still didn't know it DID which is what you're saying

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2856558&forum_id=2#27815528)



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Date: May 3rd, 2015 9:29 PM
Author: Misunderstood indirect expression

The figure I quoted is from the prime number theorem which is one of the GOATUS theorems of all time. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prime_number_theorem

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2856558&forum_id=2#27815548)



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Date: May 3rd, 2015 9:37 PM
Author: diverse corner striped hyena

lol @ tao's minions' fingerprints all over shitwiki

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2856558&forum_id=2#27815631)



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Date: May 3rd, 2015 9:32 PM
Author: marvelous indecent meetinghouse main people

oh i get it. wow, that means there will always be primes that are pretty close to each other..well, if 70 million counts as close. wow, that is actually quite mind bending in and of itself to think about. that blows my mind.

edit: wait, whats this twin prime shit? ok im a retard, i have to admit. i wish i was smarter.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2856558&forum_id=2#27815577)



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Date: May 3rd, 2015 9:36 PM
Author: diverse corner striped hyena

you are right 2 scoff at the bound. in fact, 70 million is such a big number that some mystics &legal scholars have considered it 2 be bigger than infinity

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2856558&forum_id=2#27815622)



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Date: May 3rd, 2015 9:38 PM
Author: marvelous indecent meetinghouse main people

lol....

yeah considering infinity and all that, 70 million IS quite a large number.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2856558&forum_id=2#27815644)



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Date: May 3rd, 2015 9:28 PM
Author: Tan irradiated ceo

In honor of this bro, a special 180:

(17,051,887)-(17,051,707)



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2856558&forum_id=2#27815531)



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Date: May 3rd, 2015 9:40 PM
Author: Bateful yarmulke goyim



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2856558&forum_id=2#27815675)



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Date: May 3rd, 2015 9:48 PM
Author: diverse corner striped hyena

holy shit r those primes

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2856558&forum_id=2#27815791)



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Date: May 3rd, 2015 9:59 PM
Author: brindle hairraiser rigpig

http://www.bigprimes.net/archive/prime/10945/

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2856558&forum_id=2#27815876)



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Date: May 3rd, 2015 10:08 PM
Author: Mind-boggling spruce volcanic crater whorehouse



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2856558&forum_id=2#27815929)