In number theory, Polignac's conjecture was made by Alphonse de Polignac in 1849 and states:
- For any positive even number n, there are infinitely many prime gaps of size n. In other words: There are infinitely many cases of two consecutive prime numbers with difference n.[1]
The conjecture has not yet been proven or disproven for a given value of n. In 2013 an important breakthrough was made by Zhang Yitang who proved that there are infinitely many prime gaps of size n for some value of n < 70,000,000.
