Alphonse de Polignac
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Alphonse de Polignac was a French
mathematician
. In 1849 he made Polignac's conjecture
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The case k = 1 is the twin prime conjecture.
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mathematician
Mathematician
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. In 1849 he made Polignac's conjecture
Polignac's conjecture
In number theory, Polignac's conjecture was made by Alphonse de Polignac in 1849 and states:The conjecture has not been proven or disproven for any value of n....
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- For every natural number k, there are infinitely many prime gaps of size 2k.
The case k = 1 is the twin prime conjecture.