Alphonse de Polignac
Mathematician, Deceased Person
1817 – 1890
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Who was Alphonse de Polignac?
Alphonse de Polignac was a French mathematician. In 1849, the year he was admitted to Polytechnique, he made what's known as Polignac's conjecture:
For every positive integer k, there are infinitely many prime gaps of size 2k.
The case k = 1 is the twin prime conjecture.
His father, Jules de Polignac was prime minister of Charles X until the Bourbon dynasty was overthrown.
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- Born
- 1817
- Also known as
- 阿尔方·德·波利尼亚克
- Nationality
- France
- Profession
- Died
- 1890
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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