Small gaps between prime numbers: The work of Goldston-Pintz-Yildirim
Small gaps between prime numbers: The work of Goldston-Pintz-Yildirim
In early 2005, Dan Goldston, Janos Pintz, and Cem Yildirim [12] made a spectacular breakthrough in the study of prime numbers. Resolving a long-standing open problem, they proved that there are infinitely many primes for which the gap to the next prime is as small as we want compared to …