The week of May 12 was pretty big for number theory. I wrote about some of the blog coverage of the two major results.
By now you’ve probably heard the announcements of two big results in number theory: Yitang Zhang of the University of New Hampshire proved that there are infinitely many pairs of primes whose differences are under 70 million, and Harald Helfgott of the École Normale Supériure in Paris posted his completion of the proof of the ternary, or weak, Goldbach conjecture to the arxiv. That conjecture states that every odd integer greater than 5 can be written as the sum of three primes.
Read the full post at the AMS Blog on Math Blogs.
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