Bounded gaps between primes (after Y. Zhang)
Vortrag von Prof. Dr. Philippe Michel
Datum: 29.10.13 Zeit: 17.15 - 18.30 Raum:
A few months ago, Yitang Zhang, a little known chinese mathematician working at University of New Hampshire, stunned the mathematical community by establishing the existence of infinitely many pairs of prime numbers whose distance from each other is bounded by an absolute constant (Zhang obtained 70 millions). In this lecture, we will discuss the circle of ideas that have made this extraordinary achievement possible. If time permits, we will also describe a collaborative mathematical effort initiated by Terry Tao -the Polymath 8 project- whose objective is to reduce the value of the gap constant (currently its value is less than 5000).