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Theo Conjecture solves 35-year-old math problem, finds a term no one predicted

Jul 29, 2026 An automated discovery system built at FirstPrinciples by Randy Davila has proven a 1989 prediction by Paul Erdős and William Staton linking prime numbers to the Riemann zeta function, and uncovered a second mathematical term that had gone unnoticed for decades.

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