Terence Tao's post, curated on eChai

The same day, Tao re-runs the 2005 to 2014 story of bounded gaps between primes as if today's labs had existed then. In that version Zhang stays an adjunct lecturer and Maynard leaves the field. The fourth part is his own timeline of the days he was writing in, and the last line of it is the whole page in three characters.

Terence Tao, in mathstodon.xyz

Aug 31, 2026: Stadlmann releases a preprint that develops an equidistribution theorem for numbers with a large smooth factor, and uses this to improve the Polymath8 bound of 246 slightly, to 240.

Sep 3-4, 2026: Various AI companies race to announce their own improvements to the Polymath8 bound via social media.

Sep 5-, 2026: ???

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