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Closing the Gap: the quest to understand prime numbers - Vicky Neale
Closing the Gap: the quest to understand prime numbers - Vicky Neale
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45 minutes
Released:
Oct 24, 2017
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Podcast episode
Description
Prime numbers have intrigued, inspired and infuriated mathematicians for millennia and yet mathematicians' difficulty with answering simple questions about them reveals their depth and subtlety. Join Vicky to learn about recent progress towards proving the famous Twin Primes Conjecture and to hear the very different ways in which these breakthroughs have been made - a solo mathematician working in isolation, a young mathematician displaying creativity at the start of a career, a large collaboration that reveals much about how mathematicians go about their work.
Her new book "Closing the Gap: the quest to understand prime numbers" has recently been published by Oxford University Press.
Vicky Neale is Whitehead Lecturer at the Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford and Supernumerary Fellow at Balliol College
Her new book "Closing the Gap: the quest to understand prime numbers" has recently been published by Oxford University Press.
Vicky Neale is Whitehead Lecturer at the Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford and Supernumerary Fellow at Balliol College
Released:
Oct 24, 2017
Format:
Podcast episode
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