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And in amazing math discovery news...

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Dan Goldston, a math professor at SJSU, has solved an important problem in
number theory relating to prime numbers.

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Mathematicians described the advance -- announced at a conference in
Germany -- as the most important breakthrough in the field in decades.

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Can you always find prime numbers that may not be twins, but that are much
closer together than average? Taking into account, of course, the fact
that the bigger numbers get, the sparser primes become.

Working with Cem Yalcin Yildirim of Bogazici University in Istanbul,
Goldston was finally able to say yes.

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Eric Michael Cordian 0+
O:.T:.O:. Mathematical Munitions Division
"Do What Thou Wilt Shall Be The Whole Of The Law"

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