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From: Archimedes Plutonium on 11 Aug 2010 03:56 Let me talk about the rational way of going about discovering the proof of the Infinitude of Twin Primes. In my own case, I noticed a symmetry circa 1991 that W+1 and W-1 in multiply the lot and add or subtract 1 is a twin primes. So that steered me to the proof. And then it was the reasoning that all I needed was that W+1 was "necessarily prime". But that meant that nearly every proof attempt of Euclid's venerated ancient proof Indirect Method was wrong. That most every professor of mathematics could not do a valid Infinitude of Primes in the Euclid style. By Euclid style, I mean "multiply the lot and add or subtract 1. That was the rational way of going about proving the Infinitude of Twin Primes. But now a new set of questions looms over this feat. Now that we have a proof of the Infinitude of Twin Primes, of Mersenne Primes, and of most all the other infinitude proofs using this indirect method, the question looms as to the Algebra of the solution. What I mean is that the Regular Primes is a more general set than the Twin Primes, Polignac primes, perfect numbers primes, Mersenne primes, etc etc. So the big Algebra question is whether mathematics is so patterned that if a proof of Regular primes accrues from the Euclid style of proof, that Algebra should bust into the arena by saying that due to Algebra that the Euclid style of proof technique must work on these subset classes of infinitude proof. So if Euclid's method works for the general set of Regular Primes, it must work, given a few tinkerings, it must work for Twin, Polignac, Mersenne, perfect numbers, etc etc. So what I thought was the ultra rational approach of making a few changes to Euclid's Regular Primes of using W-1 in addition to W+1 and making them necessarily prime in the steps of the proof. That really, I was not going down far enough into the foundation of mathematics itself. If I had gone deeper, I should have realized that if a general set has a proof via Euclid style that the same technique insures a proof of Twin Primes. Now maybe Galois Algebra has a fancy name for this concept. And making a survey of mathematics proofs overall, it is true in the majority of cases where a proof of a general set uses the same technique to prove the less general subsets. Normally these are called corollaries to the theorem. So that Twin primes would be a corollary of Regular Primes. Archimedes Plutonium http://www.iw.net/~a_plutonium/ whole entire Universe is just one big atom where dots of the electron-dot-cloud are galaxies |