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Landau's problems

Landau's problems proper noun: four basic unsolved problems about prime numbers: (i) is Goldbach's conjecture true?; (ii) is the twin prime conjecture true?; (iii) is Legendre's conjecture true?; (iv) are there infinitely many primes p such that p − 1 is a perfect square?

Proper noun

Landau's problems

  1. Four basic unsolved problems about prime numbers: (i) is Goldbach's conjecture true?; (ii) is the twin prime conjecture true?; (iii) is Legendre's conjecture true?; (iv) are there infinitely many primes p such that p − 1 is a perfect square?

Origin of Landau's problems

Listed by Edmund Landau at the International Congress of Mathematicians in 1912.

Questions about Landau's problems

What does Landau's problems mean?
Landau's problems means four basic unsolved problems about prime numbers: (i) is Goldbach's conjecture true?; (ii) is the twin prime conjecture true?; (iii) is Legendre's conjecture true?; (iv) are there infinitely many primes p such that p − 1 is a perfect square?
What part of speech is Landau's problems?
Landau's problems is a proper noun.

Words near Landau's problems in the dictionary

  1. Landas
  2. landau
  3. Landau diamagnetism
  4. Landau level
  5. Landau levels
  6. Landau's problems
  7. Landau-Kleffner syndrome
  8. Landau-Lifshitz pseudotensor
  9. Landau-Ramanujan constant
  10. Landau-Siegel zero
  11. Landau-Siegel zeros

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