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Alphonse de Polignac

French mathematician

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twin prime conjecture

In twin prime conjecture
…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. When the even number is 2, this is the twin prime conjecture; that is, 2 = 5 − 3 = 7 − 5…
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