Gaps between Primes - Numberphile
An exciting paper about gaps between prime numbers - a step closer to proving the twin prime conjecture. More links & stuff in full description below ↓↓↓ Extra footage at http://youtu.be/D4...
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ED COPELAND: Hello. BRADY HARAN: I was going to ask you to describe this in terms that you would describe it to, say, your daughter. And then I remembered your daughter does economics at Cambridge. ED COPELAND: Yeah. BRADY HARAN: So let's not do that. Let's describe this as you should describe to me, maybe. TONY PADILLA: OK, so there's been a very exciting breakthrough in the field of number theory. It caused an awful lot of excitement amongst the mathematicians, as excited as mathematicians can get. And the crazy thing about it is that it's come from somebody who's pretty much unknown. It's a guy called Yitang Zhang, which is a pretty cool name. And he does work at the University of New Hampshire. ED COPELAND: It's ...
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ED COPELAND: Hello. BRADY HARAN: I was going to ask you to describe this in terms that you would describe it to, say, your daughter. And then I remembered your daughter does economics at Cambridge. ED COPELAND: Yeah. BRADY HARAN: So let's not do that. Let's describe this as you should describe to me, maybe. TONY PADILLA: OK, so there's been a very exciting breakthrough in the field of number theory. It caused an awful lot of excitement amongst the mathematicians, as excited as mathematicians can get. And the crazy thing about it is that it's come from somebody who's pretty much unknown. It's a guy called Yitang Zhang, which is a pretty cool name. And he does work at the University of New Hampshire. ED COPELAND: It's ...
