Crack in the twin prime conjecture problem

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Here is a story to convince math enthusiasts to continue to work on problems regardless of their age:

A 58-year-old lecturer who had published no original work in 12 years, and who had spent years keeping the books at a friend's Subway sandwich shop, mailed a paper to the Annals of Mathematics on April 17, 2013. Just over a month later it was accepted: pairs of consecutive primes less than 70 million apart occur infinitely often. - ScienceBlog.com

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