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The Longest Standing Mathematical Conjecture That Was Actually False

Ellie Sleightholm 72,472 6 months ago
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Looking into one of the longest running conjectures that was disproved 😮 To try everything Brilliant has to offer—free—for a full 30 days, visit https://brilliant.org/EllieSleightholm. You’ll also get 20% off an annual premium subscription! Link to the paper that disproves the conjecture: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/2355126_Disproof_of_the_Mertens_Conjecture Just for clarity: the supremum of a set is its least upper bound and the infimum is its greatest lower bound :) sorry for any confusion! 🔗 Social Media 🔗 📸 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ellieinstem/ 🐦 Twitter / X: https://x.com/elsleightholm 🎵 TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@elliesleightholm? 🎶 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/user/116282575?si=5kUW8K1ZRvuuZi5fclIiCw ▶️ My Coding YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/codeofthefuture For those of you that are new here, hi there 🌞 my name is Ellie and I'm a Part III Mathematics Graduate from the University of Cambridge! This channel is where I nerd out about maths, physics, space and coding so if that sounds like something you're interested in, click the subscribe button to follow along ☺️ This video was sponsored by Brilliant 🚀 Subscribers: 71,400

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