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

https://www.quantamagazine.org/20150402-prime-proof-zhang-in...
Razzle lavender bawdyhouse
  04/16/15
*sandwich autist
floppy location persian
  05/03/15
I had the following written on my food truck all day yesterd...
Lake Point Mood
  05/03/15
evan39 can still maek it
embarrassed to the bone quadroon internal respiration
  04/16/15
Sounds like that asshole Daniel Brou was his adviser
fragrant harsh tank
  04/16/15
Dude had a Phd, just was nojob pwned for a whiel.
Provocative water buffalo resort
  04/16/15
Even so, he didn't get a PhD until age 36. People usually s...
Razzle lavender bawdyhouse
  04/16/15
30 is young!
laughsome learning disabled roast beef
  04/16/15
I'd probably be head chief of math in his country.
pea-brained background story legend
  04/16/15
he wasn't even asst manager?
Anal Curious Wrinkle Therapy
  04/16/15
a modern day Bill Sidis
Shivering home
  04/16/15
lolno. sidis never actually accomplished anything.
stimulating startled tattoo
  04/16/15
He realized the truth about the origins of the American Indi...
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  04/21/15
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cheese-eating corn cake
  05/03/15
They should have him in an ad with Jared
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  04/16/15
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Anal Curious Wrinkle Therapy
  04/16/15
"By 2009, he had turned his attention to the twin prime...
Anal Curious Wrinkle Therapy
  04/16/15
sounds like he was doing more good for society making subs
Hilarious frozen hominid toilet seat
  04/16/15
(xo 2015
Razzle lavender bawdyhouse
  04/16/15
Cr
Contagious Lay
  04/21/15
what is unclear? no one could prove the following statement ...
Fighting plum bbw
  04/21/15
And if this was proven, what the fuck would happen next?
ultramarine stage
  05/03/15
his scholarship on queuing theory is prolific
excitant theatre potus
  04/16/15
this proves that brilliant people are drawn to menial jobs ...
Flushed thriller reading party
  04/16/15
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snowy fanboi
  05/03/15
"this proves that brilliant people are drawn to menial ...
Cobalt piazza
  05/03/15
All and all, a 180 story. I feel good for him.
frisky friendly grandma area
  04/21/15
could this bro even get interviews at top quant hedge funds?
Lilac Odious Institution
  04/21/15
so he proved there is always a next prime number, at least w...
vivacious sable heaven
  04/21/15
Nope, what you wrote is actually false
Fighting plum bbw
  05/03/15
no. 1. it's very easy to prove that there are infinitely m...
translucent adventurous deer antler hissy fit
  05/03/15
lol.
offensive cerebral wagecucks
  05/03/15
theory of primes seems useless if you're an xo 2015 prole or...
Razzle lavender bawdyhouse
  05/03/15
LJL. "The theory of primes" is useful for encrypti...
Fighting plum bbw
  05/03/15
LJL. you're an autistic loser. the point is that the polis...
Razzle lavender bawdyhouse
  05/03/15
XOers aren't qualified to judge but neither are you which is...
Fighting plum bbw
  05/03/15
i didn't say i was particularly qualified, just that results...
Razzle lavender bawdyhouse
  05/03/15
lol @ you thinking I heard of the prime number theorem from ...
Fighting plum bbw
  05/04/15
fgt
Razzle lavender bawdyhouse
  05/03/15
(pensive feeling massively inadequate after reading this pos...
free-loading idiot
  05/03/15
lol, ty also lol @ "nowag"
Dashing yellow dilemma roommate
  05/03/15
"This is a significant result because when you think ab...
Fighting plum bbw
  05/03/15
cr. i didn't mean to imply the average distance between 2 pr...
translucent adventurous deer antler hissy fit
  05/03/15
The figure I quoted is from the prime number theorem which i...
Fighting plum bbw
  05/03/15
lol @ tao's minions' fingerprints all over shitwiki
translucent adventurous deer antler hissy fit
  05/03/15
oh i get it. wow, that means there will always be primes tha...
vivacious sable heaven
  05/03/15
you are right 2 scoff at the bound. in fact, 70 million is s...
translucent adventurous deer antler hissy fit
  05/03/15
lol.... yeah considering infinity and all that, 70 millio...
vivacious sable heaven
  05/03/15
In honor of this bro, a special 180: (17,051,887)-(17,051...
Dashing yellow dilemma roommate
  05/03/15
...
Cobalt piazza
  05/03/15
holy shit r those primes
translucent adventurous deer antler hissy fit
  05/03/15
http://www.bigprimes.net/archive/prime/10945/
Razzle lavender bawdyhouse
  05/03/15
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Date: April 16th, 2015 9:48 AM
Author: Razzle lavender bawdyhouse

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: floppy location persian

*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: Lake Point Mood

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: embarrassed to the bone quadroon internal respiration

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: fragrant harsh tank

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: Provocative water buffalo resort

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: Razzle lavender bawdyhouse

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: laughsome learning disabled roast beef

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: pea-brained background story legend

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: Anal Curious Wrinkle Therapy

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: Shivering home

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: stimulating startled tattoo

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: domesticated flirting keepsake machete

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: cheese-eating corn cake



(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: flatulent tantric library candlestick maker

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: Anal Curious Wrinkle Therapy



(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: Anal Curious Wrinkle Therapy

"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: Hilarious frozen hominid toilet seat

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: Razzle lavender bawdyhouse

(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: Contagious Lay

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: Fighting plum bbw

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: ultramarine stage

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: excitant theatre potus

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: Flushed thriller reading party

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: snowy fanboi



(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: Cobalt piazza

"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: frisky friendly grandma area

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: Lilac Odious Institution

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: vivacious sable heaven

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: Fighting plum bbw

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: translucent adventurous deer antler hissy fit

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: offensive cerebral wagecucks

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: Razzle lavender bawdyhouse

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: Fighting plum bbw

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: Razzle lavender bawdyhouse

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: Fighting plum bbw

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: Razzle lavender bawdyhouse

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: Fighting plum bbw

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: Razzle lavender bawdyhouse

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: free-loading idiot

(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: Dashing yellow dilemma roommate

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: Fighting plum bbw

"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: translucent adventurous deer antler hissy fit

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: Fighting plum bbw

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: translucent adventurous deer antler hissy fit

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: vivacious sable heaven

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: translucent adventurous deer antler hissy fit

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: vivacious sable heaven

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: Dashing yellow dilemma roommate

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: Cobalt piazza



(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: translucent adventurous deer antler hissy fit

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: Razzle lavender bawdyhouse

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: Olive rough-skinned black woman senate



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