Re: twin prime conjecture

In article <87fydu6kx3.fsf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Phil Carmody <thefatphil_demunged@xxxxxxxxxxx> 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 would feel obliged to look at the proof, but someone else
spared me the effort.

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.

There are a couple of chapters about sieves in Bateman & Diamond,
Analytic Number Theory, An Introductory Course, World Scientific,
2004. Might be worth a look.

--
Gerry Myerson (gerry@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx) (i -> u for email)
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