Roshan's Conjecture

From Rest of What I Know

When I was a young child, I noticed a pattern. Every number past 3 seemed to have a pair of primes 'around' it.

  1. (41)<4<(4+1)
  2. (52)<5<(5+2)
  3. (61)<6<(6+1)
  4. (74)<7<(7+4)
  5. (1132445)<11324<(11324+45)

Notice how for every number you can think of, there's a prime below it and a prime above it equidistant from it.

Better stated, what I concluded was that:

n>3N,k1N such that nk and n+k are both prime. I couldn't find a single counter-example to this. I was terribly excited, of course, because I thought I'd discovered some fundamental property of the universe.

Of course this turns out to be almost entirely equivalent to the famous modern form of Goldbach's conjecture with a little cajoling. So much for my foray into Mathematics!