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31: 175:, where he earned his bachelor's degree and, in 1981, a Ph.D. in mathematics. His doctoral advisor at Berkeley was Russell Sherman Lehman; his dissertation was entitled "Large Differences between Consecutive Prime Numbers". 309: 531: 437: 371: 401: 338: 460: 774: 533:. This result was originally reported in 2003 by Goldston and Yıldırım but was later retracted. Then Pintz joined the team and they completed the proof with the 814: 779: 222: 794: 789: 784: 200: 799: 709: 172: 66: 565:. Also, Goldston was named to the 2021 class of fellows of the American Mathematical Society "for contributions to 465: 184: 588: 188: 171:
Daniel Alan Goldston was born on January 4, 1954, in Oakland, California. In 1972, he matriculated to the
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which are closer to each other than the average distance between consecutive primes by a factor of
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and then spent the next academic year (1982–83) at the
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After earning his doctorate, Goldston worked at the
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Large differences between consecutive prime numbers
195:since 1983, save for stints at the IAS (1990), the 642:; Yıldırım, Cem Y. (2009). "Primes in tuples. I". 525: 454: 431: 395: 365: 332: 303: 155:) is an American mathematician who specializes in 766: 227: 159:. He is currently a professor of mathematics at 775:Institute for Advanced Study visiting scholars 526:{\displaystyle p_{n+1}-p_{n}<c\log p_{n}\ } 815:Fellows of the American Mathematical Society 166: 606: 604: 29: 780:University of California, Berkeley alumni 655: 201:Mathematical Sciences Research Institute 601: 767: 191:(IAS) in Princeton. He has worked at 795:21st-century American mathematicians 790:20th-century American mathematicians 13: 612:"2014 Cole Prize in Number Theory" 237: 173:University of California, Berkeley 67:University of California, Berkeley 14: 826: 785:San Jose State University faculty 753: 736:2021 Class of Fellows of the AMS 739:, American Mathematical Society 617:. 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Oakland, California
University of California, Berkeley
Cole Prize
San Jose State University
Thesis
Doctoral advisor
Oakland, California
number theory
San Jose State University
University of California, Berkeley
University of Minnesota Duluth
Institute for Advanced Study
San Jose State University
University of Toronto
Mathematical Sciences Research Institute
János Pintz
Cem Yıldırım
prime number
GPY sieve
Cole Prize
Yitang Zhang
Cem Yildirim
János Pintz
number theory
analytic number theory
Landau's problems
Yitang Zhang
James Maynard (mathematician)

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