Journeys to the Distant Fields of Prime (Published 2007)

LOS ANGELES —Four hundred people packed into an auditorium at U.C.L.A. in January to listen to a public lecture on prime numbers, one of the rare occasions that the topic has drawn a standing-room-only audience. Another 35 people watched on a video screen in a classroom next door. Eighty people were turned away. The speaker, Terence Tao, a professor of mathematics at the university, promised “a wh

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C"..Dr. Tao, along with Ben Green..solved a problem related to the Twin Prime Conjecture by looking at prime number progressions — series of numbers equally spaced.. proved..it is always possible to find, somewhere in the infinity of integers, a progression of prime numbers of any length."