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Mathematics版 - Unheralded Mathematician Bridges the Prime Gap (ZT)
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l***o
发帖数: 7937
1
(1)
Rumors swept through the mathematics community that a great advance had been
made by a researcher no one seemed to know — someone whose talents had
been so overlooked after he earned his doctorate in 1992 that he had found
it difficult to get an academic job, working for several years as an
accountant and even in a Subway sandwich shop.
“Basically, no one knows him,” said Andrew Granville, a number theorist at
the Université de Montréal. “Now, suddenly, he has proved one of the
great results in the history of number theory.”
(2)
Meanwhile, Zhang was working in solitude to try to bridge the gap between
the GPY result and the bounded prime gaps conjecture. A Chinese immigrant
who received his doctorate from Purdue University, he had always been
interested in number theory, even though it wasn’t the subject of his
dissertation. During the difficult years in which he was unable to get an
academic job, he continued to follow developments in the field.
“There are a lot of chances in your career, but the important thing is to
keep thinking,” he said.
Without communicating with the field’s experts, Zhang started thinking
about the problem. After three years, however, he had made no progress. “I
was so tired,” he said.
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On April 17, a paper arrived in the inbox of Annals of Mathematics, one of
the discipline’s preeminent journals. Written by a mathematician virtually
unknown to the experts in his field — a 50-something lecturer at the
University of New Hampshire named Yitang Zhang — the paper claimed to have
taken a huge step forward in understanding one of mathematics’ oldest
problems, the twin primes conjecture.
Editors of prominent mathematics journals are used to fielding grandiose
claims from obscure authors, but this paper was different. Written with
crystalline clarity and a total command of the topic’s current state of the
art, it was evidently a serious piece of work, and the Annals editors
decided to put it on the fast track.
Just three weeks later — a blink of an eye compared to the usual pace of
mathematics journals — Zhang received the referee report on his paper.
“The main results are of the first rank,” one of the referees wrote. The
author had proved “a landmark theorem in the distribution of prime numbers.”
Rumors swept through the mathematics community that a great advance had been
made by a researcher no one seemed to know — someone whose talents had
been so overlooked after he earned his doctorate in 1992 that he had found
it difficult to get an academic job, working for several years as an
accountant and even in a Subway sandwich shop.
“Basically, no one knows him,” said Andrew Granville, a number theorist at
the Université de Montréal. “Now, suddenly, he has proved one of the
great results in the history of number theory.”
Mathematicians at Harvard University hastily arranged for Zhang to present
his work to a packed audience there on May 13. As details of his work have
emerged, it has become clear that Zhang achieved his result not via a
radically new approach to the problem, but by applying existing methods with
great perseverance.
“The big experts in the field had already tried to make this approach work,
” Granville said. “He’s not a known expert, but he succeeded where all
the experts had failed.”
The Problem of Pairs
Prime numbers — those that have no factors other than 1 and themselves —
are the atoms of arithmetic and have fascinated mathematicians since the
time of Euclid, who proved more than 2,000 years ago that there are
infinitely many of them.
Because prime numbers are fundamentally connected with multiplication,
understanding their additive properties can be tricky. Some of the oldest
unsolved problems in mathematics concern basic questions about primes and
addition, such as the twin primes conjecture, which proposes that there are
infinitely many pairs of primes that differ by only 2, and the Goldbach
conjecture, which proposes that every even number is the sum of two primes.
(By an astonishing coincidence, a weaker version of this latter question was
settled in a paper posted online by Harald Helfgott of école Normale Supé
rieure in Paris while Zhang was delivering his Harvard lecture.)
Prime numbers are abundant at the beginning of the number line, but they
grow much sparser among large numbers. Of the first 10 numbers, for example,
40 percent are prime — 2, 3, 5 and 7 — but among 10-digit numbers, only
about 4 percent are prime. For over a century, mathematicians have
understood how the primes taper off on average: Among large numbers, the
expected gap between prime numbers is approximately 2.3 times the number of
digits; so, for example, among 100-digit numbers, the expected gap between
primes is about 230.
But that’s just on average. Primes are often much closer together than the
average predicts, or much farther apart. In particular, “twin” primes
often crop up — pairs such as 3 and 5, or 11 and 13, that differ by only 2.
And while such pairs get rarer among larger numbers, twin primes never seem
to disappear completely (the largest pair discovered so far is 3,756,801,
695,685 x 2666,669 – 1 and 3,756,801,695,685 x 2666,669 + 1).
For hundreds of years, mathematicians have speculated that there are
infinitely many twin prime pairs. In 1849, French mathematician Alphonse de
Polignac extended this conjecture to the idea that there should be
infinitely many prime pairs for any possible finite gap, not just 2.
Since that time, the intrinsic appeal of these conjectures has given them
the status of a mathematical holy grail, even though they have no known
applications. But despite many efforts at proving them, mathematicians weren
’t able to rule out the possibility that the gaps between primes grow and
grow, eventually exceeding any particular bound.
Now Zhang has broken through this barrier. His paper shows that there is
some number N smaller than 70 million such that there are infinitely many
pairs of primes that differ by N. No matter how far you go into the deserts
of the truly gargantuan prime numbers — no matter how sparse the primes
become — you will keep finding prime pairs that differ by less than 70
million.
The result is “astounding,” said Daniel Goldston, a number theorist at San
Jose State University. “It’s one of those problems you weren’t sure
people would ever be able to solve.”
A Prime Sieve
The seeds of Zhang’s result lie in a paper from eight years ago that number
theorists refer to as GPY, after its three authors — Goldston, János
Pintz of the Alfréd Rényi Institute of Mathematics in Budapest, and Cem Y&
#305;ldırım of Boğaziçi University in Istanbul. That
paper came tantalizingly close but was ultimately unable to prove that there
are infinitely many pairs of primes with some finite gap.
Instead, it showed that there will always be pairs of primes much closer
together than the average spacing predicts. More precisely, GPY showed that
for any fraction you choose, no matter how tiny, there will always be a pair
of primes closer together than that fraction of the average gap, if you go
out far enough along the number line. But the researchers couldn’t prove
that the gaps between these prime pairs are always less than some particular
finite number.
GPY uses a method called “sieving” to filter out pairs of primes that are
closer together than average. Sieves have long been used in the study of
prime numbers, starting with the 2,000-year-old Sieve of Eratosthenes, a
technique for finding prime numbers.
To use the Sieve of Eratosthenes to find, say, all the primes up to 100,
start with the number two, and cross out any higher number on the list that
is divisible by two. Next move on to three, and cross out all the numbers
divisible by three. Four is already crossed out, so you move on to five, and
cross out all the numbers divisible by five, and so on. The numbers that
survive this crossing-out process are the primes.
The Sieve of Eratosthenes works perfectly to identify primes, but it is too
cumbersome and inefficient to be used to answer theoretical questions. Over
the past century, number theorists have developed a collection of methods
that provide useful approximate answers to such questions.
“The Sieve of Eratosthenes does too good a job,” Goldston said. “Modern
sieve methods give up on trying to sieve perfectly.”
GPY developed a sieve that filters out lists of numbers that are plausible
candidates for having prime pairs in them. To get from there to actual prime
pairs, the researchers combined their sieving tool with a function whose
effectiveness is based on a parameter called the level of distribution that
measures how quickly the prime numbers start to display certain regularities.
The level of distribution is known to be at least ½. This is exactly
the right value to prove the GPY result, but it falls just short of proving
that there are always pairs of primes with a bounded gap. The sieve in GPY
could establish that result, the researchers showed, but only if the level
of distribution of the primes could be shown to be more than ½. Any
amount more would be enough.
The theorem in GPY “would appear to be within a hair’s breadth of
obtaining this result,” the researchers wrote.
But the more researchers tried to overcome this obstacle, the thicker the
hair seemed to become. During the late 1980s, three researchers — Enrico
Bombieri, a Fields medalist at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton
, John Friedlander of the University of Toronto, and Henryk Iwaniec of
Rutgers University — had developed a way to tweak the definition of the
level of distribution to bring the value of this adjusted parameter up to 4/
7. After the GPY paper was circulated in 2005, researchers worked feverishly
to incorporate this tweaked level of distribution into GPY’s sieving
framework, but to no avail.
“The big experts in the area tried and failed,” Granville said. “I
personally didn’t think anyone was going to be able to do it any time soon.”
Closing the Gap
Meanwhile, Zhang was working in solitude to try to bridge the gap between
the GPY result and the bounded prime gaps conjecture. A Chinese immigrant
who received his doctorate from Purdue University, he had always been
interested in number theory, even though it wasn’t the subject of his
dissertation. During the difficult years in which he was unable to get an
academic job, he continued to follow developments in the field.
“There are a lot of chances in your career, but the important thing is to
keep thinking,” he said.
Zhang read the GPY paper, and in particular the sentence referring to the
hair’s breadth between GPY and bounded prime gaps. “That sentence
impressed me so much,” he said.
Without communicating with the field’s experts, Zhang started thinking
about the problem. After three years, however, he had made no progress. “I
was so tired,” he said.
To take a break, Zhang visited a friend in Colorado last summer. There, on
July 3, during a half-hour lull in his friend’s backyard before leaving for
a concert, the solution suddenly came to him. “I immediately realized that
it would work,” he said.
Zhang’s idea was to use not the GPY sieve but a modified version of it, in
which the sieve filters not by every number, but only by numbers that have
no large prime factors.
“His sieve doesn’t do as good a job because you’re not using everything
you can sieve with,” Goldston said. “But it turns out that while it’s a
little less effective, it gives him the flexibility that allows the argument
to work.”
While the new sieve allowed Zhang to prove that there are infinitely many
prime pairs closer together than 70 million, it is unlikely that his methods
can be pushed as far as the twin primes conjecture, Goldston said. Even
with the strongest possible assumptions about the value of the level of
distribution, he said, the best result likely to emerge from the GPY method
would be that there are infinitely many prime pairs that differ by 16 or
less.
But Granville said that mathematicians shouldn’t prematurely rule out the
possibility of reaching the twin primes conjecture by these methods.
“This work is a game changer, and sometimes after a new proof, what had
previously appeared to be much harder turns out to be just a tiny extension,
” he said. “For now, we need to study the paper and see what’s what.”
It took Zhang several months to work through all the details, but the
resulting paper is a model of clear exposition, Granville said. “He nailed
down every detail so no one will doubt him. There’s no waffling.”
Once Zhang received the referee report, events unfolded with dizzying speed.
Invitations to speak on his work poured in. “I think people are pretty
thrilled that someone out of nowhere did this,” Granville said.
For Zhang, who calls himself shy, the glare of the spotlight has been
somewhat uncomfortable. “I said, ‘Why is this so quick?’” he said. “It
was confusing, sometimes.”
Zhang was not shy, though, during his Harvard talk, which attendees praised
for its clarity. “When I’m giving a talk and concentrating on the math, I
forget my shyness,” he said.
Zhang said he feels no resentment about the relative obscurity of his career
thus far. “My mind is very peaceful. I don’t care so much about the money
, or the honor,” he said. “I like to be very quiet and keep working by
myself.”
Meanwhile, Zhang has already started work on his next project, which he
declined to describe. “Hopefully it will be a good result,” he said.
l***o
发帖数: 7937
2
张92年博士毕业后没有找到学术职位,当过accoutant,甚至还在subway店干过。张一
人孤独地工作,默默无闻,从不与同行专家交流。搞数学的萎缩男,看了之后是不是很
励志啊?
j**********e
发帖数: 1034
3
发现有时候老外比国人厚道的多

been
at

【在 l***o 的大作中提到】
: (1)
: Rumors swept through the mathematics community that a great advance had been
: made by a researcher no one seemed to know — someone whose talents had
: been so overlooked after he earned his doctorate in 1992 that he had found
: it difficult to get an academic job, working for several years as an
: accountant and even in a Subway sandwich shop.
: “Basically, no one knows him,” said Andrew Granville, a number theorist at
: the Université de Montréal. “Now, suddenly, he has proved one of the
: great results in the history of number theory.”
: (2)

o*********r
发帖数: 168
4
老张好可怜。我要是他,就呆在unH了,感谢知遇之恩。前提是给TENURE, FULL
PROFESSOR.
r********9
发帖数: 1116
5
厚道啥,你看Goldston多酸
While the new sieve allowed Zhang to prove that there are infinitely many
prime pairs closer together than 70 million, it is unlikely that his methods
can be pushed as far as the twin primes conjecture, Goldston said.
Even with the strongest possible assumptions about the value of the level of
distribution, he said, the best result likely to emerge from the GPY method
would be that there are infinitely many prime pairs that differ by 16 or
less.

【在 j**********e 的大作中提到】
: 发现有时候老外比国人厚道的多
:
: been
: at

g****t
发帖数: 31659
6
这个没觉得酸.基本上是学术判断.
而且这里的一些说法,张说不定也能同意.

厚道啥,你看Goldston多酸
While the new sieve allowed Zhang to prove that there are infinitely many
prime pairs closer together than 70 million, it is unlikely that his methods
can be pushed as far as the twin primes conjecture, Goldston said.
Even with the strongest possible assumptions about the value of the level of
distribution, he said, the best result likely to emerge from the GPY method
would be that there are infinitely many prime pairs that differ by 16 or
less.

【在 r********9 的大作中提到】
: 厚道啥,你看Goldston多酸
: While the new sieve allowed Zhang to prove that there are infinitely many
: prime pairs closer together than 70 million, it is unlikely that his methods
: can be pushed as far as the twin primes conjecture, Goldston said.
: Even with the strongest possible assumptions about the value of the level of
: distribution, he said, the best result likely to emerge from the GPY method
: would be that there are infinitely many prime pairs that differ by 16 or
: less.

r********9
发帖数: 1116
7
啥学术判断?我觉得更像是glodston习惯性的market自己的东西。Granville马上就看
不过眼了:
But Granville said that mathematicians shouldn’t prematurely rule out the
possibility of reaching the twin primes conjecture by these methods.

methods
of
method

【在 g****t 的大作中提到】
: 这个没觉得酸.基本上是学术判断.
: 而且这里的一些说法,张说不定也能同意.
:
: 厚道啥,你看Goldston多酸
: While the new sieve allowed Zhang to prove that there are infinitely many
: prime pairs closer together than 70 million, it is unlikely that his methods
: can be pushed as far as the twin primes conjecture, Goldston said.
: Even with the strongest possible assumptions about the value of the level of
: distribution, he said, the best result likely to emerge from the GPY method
: would be that there are infinitely many prime pairs that differ by 16 or

g****t
发帖数: 31659
8
unlikely和impossible意思不太一样吧.
是不是我英语也不行? 我觉得他的意思是,他主观认为不太可能.
这可以看作他的主观选择.
并不是断定客观事实的语气.

啥学术判断?我觉得更像是glodston习惯性的market自己的东西。Granville马上就看
不过眼了:
But Granville said that mathematicians shouldn’t prematurely rule out the
possibility of reaching the twin primes conjecture by these methods.
methods
of
method

【在 r********9 的大作中提到】
: 啥学术判断?我觉得更像是glodston习惯性的market自己的东西。Granville马上就看
: 不过眼了:
: But Granville said that mathematicians shouldn’t prematurely rule out the
: possibility of reaching the twin primes conjecture by these methods.
:
: methods
: of
: method

B*********s
发帖数: 4158
9
酸点在老张用经典方法逆袭,用弹弓打死了狗熊

methods
of
method

【在 r********9 的大作中提到】
: 厚道啥,你看Goldston多酸
: While the new sieve allowed Zhang to prove that there are infinitely many
: prime pairs closer together than 70 million, it is unlikely that his methods
: can be pushed as far as the twin primes conjecture, Goldston said.
: Even with the strongest possible assumptions about the value of the level of
: distribution, he said, the best result likely to emerge from the GPY method
: would be that there are infinitely many prime pairs that differ by 16 or
: less.

r********9
发帖数: 1116
10
他敢说impossible吗?他说impossible被人骂死活该。都是江湖上老成了精的人了,说
话能让你抓住漏洞?

【在 g****t 的大作中提到】
: unlikely和impossible意思不太一样吧.
: 是不是我英语也不行? 我觉得他的意思是,他主观认为不太可能.
: 这可以看作他的主观选择.
: 并不是断定客观事实的语气.
:
: 啥学术判断?我觉得更像是glodston习惯性的market自己的东西。Granville马上就看
: 不过眼了:
: But Granville said that mathematicians shouldn’t prematurely rule out the
: possibility of reaching the twin primes conjecture by these methods.
: methods

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可怜的张汤姆 (转载)最郁闷的还是陶哲轩了
摘老张桃子的来了【科学网】张益唐破译孪生素数猜想:无名之辈的逆袭(转贴)
数学界的重大突破,据说Annals已经接受啦老张也挺幸运, 做研究这事也挺残酷(重读老张事迹有感)
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g****t
发帖数: 31659
11
只要不被人抓住漏洞,我认为那就不能算是有漏洞阿.
或者说,面对各种结果,比这更酸的话,比比皆是,没办法把这个算进去了.

他敢说impossible吗?他说impossible被人骂死活该。都是江湖上老成了精的人了,说
话能让你抓住漏洞?

【在 r********9 的大作中提到】
: 他敢说impossible吗?他说impossible被人骂死活该。都是江湖上老成了精的人了,说
: 话能让你抓住漏洞?

m*********a
发帖数: 2000
12
太牛B了, 我的大偶像

been
at

【在 l***o 的大作中提到】
: (1)
: Rumors swept through the mathematics community that a great advance had been
: made by a researcher no one seemed to know — someone whose talents had
: been so overlooked after he earned his doctorate in 1992 that he had found
: it difficult to get an academic job, working for several years as an
: accountant and even in a Subway sandwich shop.
: “Basically, no one knows him,” said Andrew Granville, a number theorist at
: the Université de Montréal. “Now, suddenly, he has proved one of the
: great results in the history of number theory.”
: (2)

y**********0
发帖数: 521
13
这个比喻很好.老张这次的确是用弹弓打死了一只狗熊. 从结果上,老张是当之无愧的英
雄, 不过这个弹弓不是个新武器, 已经被用过无数次了,证明绝大部分情况是打不死熊
的,所以大家早已升级成步枪了. 我说老张这次猎熊, from this point,对大家以后打
猎没什么改进. 结果就引来几个人的攻击. 我从来没说老张不是个英雄, 看文要看仔细.

【在 B*********s 的大作中提到】
: 酸点在老张用经典方法逆袭,用弹弓打死了狗熊
:
: methods
: of
: method

g****t
发帖数: 31659
14
你别车轱辘话来回说了。
But it cann't...这句话你是从哪儿来的,根据是什么?
我就不说你说人家的proof is soso了。
Goldston也就说了个这个方法unlikely推到2,
还被人反驳了。
你真牛,你直接就知道人家的方法,在任何其他地方都没用了。

这个比喻很好.老张这次的确是用弹弓打死了一只狗熊. 从结果上,老张是当之无愧的英
雄, 不过这个弹弓不是个新武器, 已经被用过无数次了,证明绝大部分情况是打不死熊
的,所以大家早已升级成步枪了. 我说老张这次猎熊, from this point,对大家以后打
猎没什么改进. 结果就引来几个人的攻击. 我从来没说老张不是个英雄, 看文要看仔细.

【在 y**********0 的大作中提到】
: 这个比喻很好.老张这次的确是用弹弓打死了一只狗熊. 从结果上,老张是当之无愧的英
: 雄, 不过这个弹弓不是个新武器, 已经被用过无数次了,证明绝大部分情况是打不死熊
: 的,所以大家早已升级成步枪了. 我说老张这次猎熊, from this point,对大家以后打
: 猎没什么改进. 结果就引来几个人的攻击. 我从来没说老张不是个英雄, 看文要看仔细.

j**********e
发帖数: 1034
15
我前面就说过,他的确是最酸的一个
不过也能理解,老张就站在他的方法上加以改变,一下子解决了大问题,更坑爹的是还
说受了里面一句话的启发。goldston现在是不是恨自己当时多加那一句干啥

methods
of
method

【在 r********9 的大作中提到】
: 厚道啥,你看Goldston多酸
: While the new sieve allowed Zhang to prove that there are infinitely many
: prime pairs closer together than 70 million, it is unlikely that his methods
: can be pushed as far as the twin primes conjecture, Goldston said.
: Even with the strongest possible assumptions about the value of the level of
: distribution, he said, the best result likely to emerge from the GPY method
: would be that there are infinitely many prime pairs that differ by 16 or
: less.

y**********0
发帖数: 521
16
这个goldston应该可以放心,他是会有credit的, 可能比Hamilton在Poincare里面的
credit还大一点. 搞数学就这样, 做了很多事情, 射门的是别人. 不过圈里人对谁各自
的credit都明白的很, 不需要刻意说些什么.

【在 j**********e 的大作中提到】
: 我前面就说过,他的确是最酸的一个
: 不过也能理解,老张就站在他的方法上加以改变,一下子解决了大问题,更坑爹的是还
: 说受了里面一句话的启发。goldston现在是不是恨自己当时多加那一句干啥
:
: methods
: of
: method

m********e
发帖数: 1156
17
有理啊。
但也免不了会想,这门要是我破的多好。

【在 y**********0 的大作中提到】
: 这个goldston应该可以放心,他是会有credit的, 可能比Hamilton在Poincare里面的
: credit还大一点. 搞数学就这样, 做了很多事情, 射门的是别人. 不过圈里人对谁各自
: 的credit都明白的很, 不需要刻意说些什么.

A5
发帖数: 12
18
现在这么说不厚道,有一种可能老张用的弹弓会被后人证明是带超级核弹头的弹弓。老
张就是撬开新领域大门的人。

细.

【在 y**********0 的大作中提到】
: 这个比喻很好.老张这次的确是用弹弓打死了一只狗熊. 从结果上,老张是当之无愧的英
: 雄, 不过这个弹弓不是个新武器, 已经被用过无数次了,证明绝大部分情况是打不死熊
: 的,所以大家早已升级成步枪了. 我说老张这次猎熊, from this point,对大家以后打
: 猎没什么改进. 结果就引来几个人的攻击. 我从来没说老张不是个英雄, 看文要看仔细.

l***o
发帖数: 7937
19
张总体算是喜剧,这位到死都没看到自己的成果被承认,太悲剧了,太打击人了。
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurt_Heegner
"The most dramatic example I know of someone who is older and also not a
well known who found a major result is Kurt Heegner. He was a 59 year old
private tutor and radio engineer with no previous published results when he
proved the Class Number 1 problem. His proof was initially rejected by the
mathematical establishment and he died before learning that the proof was a
major advance and essentially correct."

【在 o*********r 的大作中提到】
: 老张好可怜。我要是他,就呆在unH了,感谢知遇之恩。前提是给TENURE, FULL
: PROFESSOR.

o*********r
发帖数: 168
20
这就是用成熟方法的好处阿,老张如果用什么新方法,难保不是同样下场。

he
a

【在 l***o 的大作中提到】
: 张总体算是喜剧,这位到死都没看到自己的成果被承认,太悲剧了,太打击人了。
: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurt_Heegner
: "The most dramatic example I know of someone who is older and also not a
: well known who found a major result is Kurt Heegner. He was a 59 year old
: private tutor and radio engineer with no previous published results when he
: proved the Class Number 1 problem. His proof was initially rejected by the
: mathematical establishment and he died before learning that the proof was a
: major advance and essentially correct."

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看来张老师解决这个问题没用几年,是吧,老张的贡献
zhang 和tao的论文都有56页老张难道永远做讲师了?
阴暗:盯着tao是因为他是华人陶选哲是慕容复(zz)
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p*******5
发帖数: 6446
21
"...and the Goldbach conjecture, which proposes that every even number is
the sum of two primes. (By an astonishing coincidence, a weaker version of
this latter question wassettled in a paper posted online by Harald Helfgott
of école Normale Supérieure in Paris while Zhang was delivering his
Harvard lecture.)"
歌德巴赫猜想也出新结果了? 懂行的说说...

been
at

【在 l***o 的大作中提到】
: (1)
: Rumors swept through the mathematics community that a great advance had been
: made by a researcher no one seemed to know — someone whose talents had
: been so overlooked after he earned his doctorate in 1992 that he had found
: it difficult to get an academic job, working for several years as an
: accountant and even in a Subway sandwich shop.
: “Basically, no one knows him,” said Andrew Granville, a number theorist at
: the Université de Montréal. “Now, suddenly, he has proved one of the
: great results in the history of number theory.”
: (2)

j**********e
发帖数: 1034
22
瞧你这心操的,真是比goldston本人都急!
wiles的奖金好像也没分给那日本人一分钱

【在 y**********0 的大作中提到】
: 这个goldston应该可以放心,他是会有credit的, 可能比Hamilton在Poincare里面的
: credit还大一点. 搞数学就这样, 做了很多事情, 射门的是别人. 不过圈里人对谁各自
: 的credit都明白的很, 不需要刻意说些什么.

m*****h
发帖数: 2292
23
1+1+1吧

Helfgott

【在 p*******5 的大作中提到】
: "...and the Goldbach conjecture, which proposes that every even number is
: the sum of two primes. (By an astonishing coincidence, a weaker version of
: this latter question wassettled in a paper posted online by Harald Helfgott
: of école Normale Supérieure in Paris while Zhang was delivering his
: Harvard lecture.)"
: 歌德巴赫猜想也出新结果了? 懂行的说说...
:
: been
: at

p*******5
发帖数: 6446
24
哪个日本人?

【在 j**********e 的大作中提到】
: 瞧你这心操的,真是比goldston本人都急!
: wiles的奖金好像也没分给那日本人一分钱

p*******5
发帖数: 6446
25
点解

【在 m*****h 的大作中提到】
: 1+1+1吧
:
: Helfgott

L*******r
发帖数: 5448
26
提出谷山志村猜想的志村,谷山早就自杀了

【在 p*******5 的大作中提到】
: 哪个日本人?
m*****h
发帖数: 2292
27
Every odd number (greater than 7) can be expressed as the sum of three
primes

【在 p*******5 的大作中提到】
: 点解
m****m
发帖数: 2211
28
这个弱哥德巴赫猜想对于充分大的奇数在1937年就被证明了
大致相当于张的结果
现在是在下降这个充分大的下限

【在 m*****h 的大作中提到】
: Every odd number (greater than 7) can be expressed as the sum of three
: primes

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