The Infinite Twin Prime Problem
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0:00 What are twin primes?
3:08 How To Find Prime Numbers
6:11 The Sieve of Eratosthenes
11:26 The Closest We’ve Come To Proving Twin Primes
15:54 Searching For A Bounded Gap
18:47 How A Subway Worker Changed The Game
29:20 Finding An Upper Bound
32:04 Maynard and Polymath
36:42 Will we solve the twin prime conjecture?
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