{"id":155517,"date":"2023-01-15T12:23:17","date_gmt":"2023-01-15T18:23:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/01\/teenager-solves-stubborn-riddle-about-prime-number-look-alikes"},"modified":"2023-01-15T12:23:17","modified_gmt":"2023-01-15T18:23:17","slug":"teenager-solves-stubborn-riddle-about-prime-number-look-alikes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/01\/teenager-solves-stubborn-riddle-about-prime-number-look-alikes","title":{"rendered":"Teenager Solves Stubborn Riddle About Prime Number Look-Alikes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/teenager-solves-stubborn-riddle-about-prime-number-look-alikes2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Still, Larsen\u2019s most recent obsession felt different, \u201clonger and more intense than most of his other projects,\u201d she said. For more than a year and a half, Larsen couldn\u2019t stop thinking about a certain math problem.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Then, in November 2021, Granville opened up an email from Larsen, then 17 years old and in his senior year of high school. A <a href=\"https:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/2111.06963v1\">paper<\/a> was attached \u2014 and to Granville\u2019s surprise, it looked correct. \u201cIt wasn\u2019t the easiest read ever,\u201d he said. \u201cBut when I read it, it was quite clear that he wasn\u2019t messing around. He had brilliant ideas.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Pomerance, who read a later version of the work, agreed. \u201cHis proof is really quite advanced,\u201d he said. \u201cIt would be a paper that any mathematician would be really proud to have written. And here\u2019s a high school kid writing it.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Still, Larsen\u2019s most recent obsession felt different, \u201clonger and more intense than most of his other projects,\u201d she said. For more than a year and a half, Larsen couldn\u2019t stop thinking about a certain math problem. Then, in November 2021, Granville opened up an email from Larsen, then 17 years old and in his senior [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":534,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,2229],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-155517","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-mathematics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155517","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/534"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=155517"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155517\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=155517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=155517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=155517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}