Sandwich Artist comes close to solving age old math problem

[nitro]

"On May 13, an obscure mathematician — one whose talents had gone so unrecognized that he had worked at a Subway restaurant to make ends meet — garnered worldwide attention and accolades from the mathematics community for settling a long-standing open question about prime numbers, those numbers divisible by only one and themselves...."

https://www.simonsfoundation.org/quanta/20131119-together-and-alone-closing-the-prime-gap/

 

[nazzdack]

Quote from nitro:
----obscure mathematician....
----talents had gone so unrecognized....
----worked at a Subway.....
----long-standing open question about prime numbers....

1) "Interesting".
2) Why can't those guys do something "worthwhile" with their math ability....like tell me today's settlement of Feb Crude, right now.

 

[OddTrader]

" “It’s the sort of thing where people like me slap their foreheads and say, ‘We could have done this seven years ago if we hadn’t been so sure we couldn’t do it!’” "

Seems talking about trading strategies - LOL

Quote from nitro:

"On May 13, an obscure mathematician — one whose talents had gone so unrecognized that he had worked at a Subway restaurant to make ends meet — garnered worldwide attention and accolades from the mathematics community for settling a long-standing open question about prime numbers, those numbers divisible by only one and themselves...."

https://www.simonsfoundation.org/quanta/20131119-together-and-alone-closing-the-prime-gap/