Joint Princeton University/Rutgers/Institute for Advanced Study

NUMBER THEORY SEMINAR
for 5/8/2003

Don Goldston
San Jose State University

Small gaps between primes

Abstract

This talk will discuss the main new idea behind the proof that there are infinitely many primes much closer together than the average spacing between primes, and how this idea was discovered. A sketch of the proof will be given. This is joint work with C. Yalcin Yildirim.