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Cramér's conjecture

In mathematics, Cramér's conjecture, formulated by Swedish mathematician Harald Cramér in 1937, states that

where pn denotes the n-th prime number; this conjecture is unproven until today. Cramér also formulated another conjecture concerning prime numbers, stating that

which he proved using the (as-of-yet unproven) Riemann hypothesis.