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Twin prime number breakthrough

"It's a brand new technique that opens the door. A lot of the excitement is we don't know how far this thing is going to go. There are going to be a lot of applications, I think. It's an incredible breakthrough."
Dan Goldston's paper is called Small Gaps Between Primes, and co-authored with Cem Yildirim. It places mathematicians closer to the tantalizing goal of identifying the frequency and location of twin primes.