Some pan for gold, some pan for prime numbers. Yitang “Tom” Zhang may have found both.
Zhang, a mathematician at the University of New Hampshire, stunned the mathematical world in May when he reported a major step toward solving one of the oldest outstanding problems in number theory, called the twin prime conjecture (SN: 10/19/13, p.
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