Another Breakthrough in Prime Number Theory

Posted by timothy on Sunday March 30, 2003 @05:30AM from the brother-go-find-your-brother dept.

Battal Boy writes "From aimath.org: Dan Goldston and his Turkish colleague Yalcin Cem Yildirim have smashed all previous records on the size of small gaps between prime numbers. This work is a major step toward the centuries-old problem of showing that there are infinitely many 'twin primes': prime numbers which differ by 2, such as 11 and 13, 17 and 19, 29 and 31,...I am especially proud of this achievement as Yalcin is a close friend of mine from way back! You may also want to check out the Mercury News Article and Dan Goldston's home page where you can see a photo of Dan's back being slowly but surely broken by two of his children ..." Finding patterns in primes seems to be all the rage.

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Re:Good work by ChaoticChaos · 2003-03-30 05:40 · Score: 1, Offtopic

While the importance of what you're saying can't be overstated, I guarantee you there is no application of this finding that will impact John Carmack's work on the next Doom engine. ;-)