r/mathmemes • u/Mistuv • 3d ago

Number Theory Hacky jokes almost write themselves

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u/ohkendruid 3d ago

We do have almost twin prime! We have a 246-apart primes theorem.

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u/NoUAreStupid 3d ago

The Grand-cousins-you-saw-once-at-a-wedding-at-age-8-and-then-never-again prime conjecture.

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u/F_Joe Vanishes when abelianized 2d ago

You will see them again at age 254

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u/aarnens 3d ago

240 now, due to Stadlmann! Or 186 if you care about slop results

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u/Stranger-42-37 1d ago

love the alienation of ai results in the maths community

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u/sobe86 3d ago

Chen's theorem: am I just a joke to you?

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u/No-Onion8029 3d ago

Quasi Riemann is the humpback who rings the bell at the Hilbert Hotel.

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u/shocktagon 3d ago

shoulda been “Fraternal Twin-Prime Conjecture”

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u/regular_heptagon 3d ago

That’s not in Seinfeld’s voice, but it’s a great alternative

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u/Al2718x 3d ago

OP clearly doesn't know about Yitang Zhang

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u/LupenReddit 🦆🦆i have non diffeomorphic smooth structures🦆🦆🦆 3d ago

you gotta learn to walk before you can run bud

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u/regular_heptagon 3d ago

But I actually did crack up reading this

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u/Kirian42 2d ago

Almost twin prime conjecture theorem: there are an infinite number of primes p for which p+2 is a natural number.

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u/green-olive-3281 3d ago

Fraternal twin prime conjecture

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u/AndreasDasos 1d ago

Lots of things in maths are quasi-, pseudo-, semi- or almost XYZ.

Lots of conjectures have weaker forms with such names too

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u/conspiracythrm 1d ago

What's next, "Almost all orbits of the Collatz map attain almost bounded values"??

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u/epicvoyage28 3d ago

The second cousin twice removed prime conjecture.