Closing the Gap: the quest to understand prime numbers - Vicky Neale
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Closing the Gap: the quest to understand prime numbers
Vicky Neale

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.

Vicky Neale is Whitehead Lecturer at the Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford and Supernumerary Fellow at Balliol College

Please email external-relations@maths.ox.ac.uk to register
Date: 18 October 2017, 17:00 (Wednesday, 2nd week, Michaelmas 2017)
Venue: Mathematical Institute, Woodstock Road OX2 6GG
Venue Details: Full access
Speaker: Dr Vicky Neale (University of Oxford)
Organising department: Mathematical Institute
Organiser: Dyrol Lumbard (University of Oxford)
Organiser contact email address: lumbard@maths.ox.ac.uk
Host: Dyrol Lumbard (University of Oxford)
Part of: Oxford Mathematics Public Lectures
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Booking email: external-relations@maths.ox.ac.uk
Audience: Public
Editor: Dyrol Lumbard