Unknown Mathematician Proves Elusive Property of Prime Numbers

http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2013/05/twin-primes/

by JDGM • 13 years ago

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JDGM• 13 years ago

I remember we were talking about this last week, and I've submitted this particular link for the usual reason I submit a link: that I'm interested in the HN comment thread it may spawn.

In this case I find it rather bizarre that the Wired article has framed it in this way ("Unknown Mathematician") and then instantly (first paragraph) gives us this:

"a 50-something lecturer at the University of New Hampshire named Yitang Zhang"

So...a university lecturer...? Is "Unknown" really appropriate here? He's hardly Ramanujan!

The piece is a fairly nice write up for the layman, in the usual style of such things (sometimes I feel Simon Singh invented that style - of course he didn't, but you know what I mean), it's just the angle they've gone for seems curious. I guess it's original (?).

Unknown Mathematician Proves Elusive Property of Prime Numbers

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