Etymology

Landau's problems

Today it 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? Full definition →

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

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