Recent news in analytic number theory

Every odd integer greater than 5 is the sum of three primes, says Harald Helfgott. And there are infinitely many prime gaps less than seventy million, says Yitang Zhang. (As Dan Goldston quips in this blog post from Nature, this is within a factor of thirty-five million of the target.

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