Author : Kevin Broughan
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108875009
Total Pages : 591 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (88 download)
Book Synopsis Bounded Gaps Between Primes by : Kevin Broughan
Download or read book Bounded Gaps Between Primes written by Kevin Broughan and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2021-02-25 with total page 591 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Searching for small gaps between consecutive primes is one way to approach the twin primes conjecture, one of the most celebrated unsolved problems in number theory. This book documents the remarkable developments of recent decades, whereby an upper bound on the known gap length between infinite numbers of consecutive primes has been reduced to a tractable finite size. The text is both introductory and complete: the detailed way in which results are proved is fully set out and plenty of background material is included. The reader journeys from selected historical theorems to the latest best result, exploring the contributions of a vast array of mathematicians, including Bombieri, Goldston, Motohashi, Pintz, Yildirim, Zhang, Maynard, Tao and Polymath8. The book is supported by a linked and freely-available package of computer programs. The material is suitable for graduate students and of interest to any mathematician curious about recent breakthroughs in the field.