Re: twin prime conjecture

Hi Phil,

Thanks very much for the book suggestion. I will take a look.

I am also reviewing Dan Goldston et al's approach which looks so
promising that I suspect that he will resolve the twin prime conjecture
once and for all:
http://arxiv.org/PS_cache/math/pdf/0605/0605696.pdf

In my spare time, I am still working on the sieve objections that were
raised (see Professor Haugland's thread if you are interested). There
is one interesting note. The example that disproves my argument was
well chosen. If you add +6 to the counter example given to me, you
find a twin prime. :-)

But it follows my reasoning exactly so it was a great counterexample!

-Larry
Phil Carmody wrote:
Gerry Myerson <gerry@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
In article <1160567009.355920.117830@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
"larry.freeman@xxxxxxxxx" <larry.freeman@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

OK, here's the solution to one more of your problems (2 more to go):

OK. But you can stop now - you've made your point
(unless of course you're enjoying this, in which case,
be my guest).

I suspect Larry was unfamiliar with the number of incompetant
doofi we get here in sci.math who make bold claims. Almost
all of which are unable to demonstrate _any_ ability in the
field in which they claim to have made a breakthrough.

Hence your challenge, which I'm sure you didn't expect any
sensible replies to, and you'd be right 99% of the time.

So Gerry - are you actually going to waste your time looking
at the paper, now that you've wasted Larry's time with those
questions? :-D

I've not looked at it, but I would be willing to bet that
it's "sieve method that doesn't consider error bounds". It
almost always is. There is a standard sieve methods text,
it's almost certainly way above my level:

H. Halberstam and H. E. Richert. (1974). Sieve Methods.
Academic Press, London, 1974. ISBN 0-12-318250-6

If anyone could recommend a text which aims a little lower,
introducing the subject to someone like myself, I'd be very
grateful.

Phil
--
"Home taping is killing big business profits. We left this side blank
so you can help." -- Dead Kennedys, written upon the B-side of tapes of
/In God We Trust, Inc./.

.

Relevant Pages

  • Re: twin prime conjecture
    ... doofi we get here in sci.math who make bold claims. ... There is a standard sieve methods text, ... Analytic Number Theory, An Introductory Course, World Scientific, ... Gerry Myerson ...
    (sci.math)
  • Re: twin prime conjecture
    ... Gerry Myerson writes: ... be my guest). ... doofi we get here in sci.math who make bold claims. ... There is a standard sieve methods text, ...
    (sci.math)