Proof Claimed for Deep Connection between Prime Numbers
 

"Mathematician Shinichi Mochizuki of Kyoto University in Japan has released a 500-page proof of the abc conjecture, which proposes a relationship between whole numbers — a 'Diophantine' problem."

[url]http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=proof-claimed-for-deep-connection-between-prime-numbers[/url]

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[url]http://mersenneforum.org/showthread.php?t=17171[/url]