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Green-Tao theorem
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Etymology
Proved by Ben Green and Terence Tao in 2004.
Proper noun
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en number theory A theorem stating that the sequence of prime numbers contains arbitrarily long arithmetic progressions.
The Singular Mind of Terry Tao Gareth Cook 2015-07-24 https://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/26/magazine/the-singular-mind-of-terry-tao.html The Green-Tao theorem on primes was a similar collaboration. Green is a specialist in an area called number theory, and Tao originally trained in an area called harmonic analysis. https://web.archive.org/web/20200318193655/https://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/26/magazine/the-singular-mind-of-terry-tao.html
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