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Small gaps between prime numbers: The work of Goldston-Pintz-Yildirim
Author:
K. Soundararajan
Journal:
Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 44 (2007), 1-18
MSC (2000):
Primary 11N05
Posted:
September 25, 2006
MathSciNet review:
2265008
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K. Soundararajan
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109
Address at time of publication:
Department of Mathematics, Stanford University, 450 Serra Mall, Building 380, Stanford, California 94305-2125
Email:
ksound@math.stanford.edu, ksound@umich.edu
DOI:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1090/S0273-0979-06-01142-6
PII:
S 0273-0979(06)01142-6
Received by editor(s):
July 18, 2006
Posted:
September 25, 2006
Additional Notes:
This article is based on a lecture presented January 14, 2006, at the AMS Special Session on Current Events, Joint Mathematics Meetings, San Antonio, TX
The author is partially supported by the National Science Foundation
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