Monday, May 20, 2013

Update on Twin Prime Conjecture

Wired: "Rumors swept through the mathematics community that a great advance had been made by a researcher no one seemed to know — someone whose talents had been so overlooked after he earned his doctorate in 1992 that he had found it difficult to get an academic job, working for several years as an accountant and even in a Subway sandwich shop..."

I also really liked this statement from Zhang, "There are a lot of chances in your career, but the important thing is to keep thinking".