6/08/2005

Small gaps between primes or almost primes An exciting paper has been re-released by Goldston, Graham, Pintz and Yilidrim which is a correction of their monumental announcement of two years ago on the first real progresss in decades on the age old twin prime problem. After working for twenty years, Goldston has not solved the twin prime conjecture but an affirmative anwser is given to a similar question : "Can you find an infinite number of primes that may not be twins, but that are much closer together than average". Read the paper here

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