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Gaps between Primes - Numberphile

2013-05-27

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An exciting paper about gaps between prime numbers - a step closer to proving the twin prime conjecture.

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The proof was published by Yitang "Tom" Zhang from the University of New Hampshire.

We discuss it in simple terms with Numberphile regulars - physicists Ed Copeland and Tony Padilla from the University of Nottingham at /youtube/video/D4_sNKoO-RA

Brown papers from this video available: http://bit.ly/brownpapers

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