Yitang Zhang and the twin primes conjecture
Ramesh, Sreekantan (2013) Yitang Zhang and the twin primes conjecture. At Right Angles, 2 (3). pp. 14-17. ISSN 2582-1873
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Abstract
In early May 2013 a lecture was announced at Harvard university,which got a lot of mathematicians (especially the analytic number theorists) cautiously excited. A person by the name of Yitang Zhang had announced a proof of a theorem which could be considered a first step towards the Twin Primes conjecture — long standing in the theory of numbers. The conjecture is easy to s
| Item Type: | Articles in APF Magazines | ||
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| Authors: | Ramesh, Sreekantan | ||
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | Prime, twin primes, Polignac, bounded gaps, Brun, Brun sieve, Yitang Zhang, lim inf | ||
| Subjects: | Natural Sciences Natural Sciences > Mathematics |
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| Divisions: | Azim Premji University - Bengaluru > University Publications > At Right Angles | ||
| Full Text Status: | Public | ||
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| URI: | http://publications.azimpremjiuniversity.edu.in/id/eprint/1682 | ||
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