Terry Tao, son of classmate Grace Leung, has been elected a Fellow of the MacArthur Foundation, just weeks after the Fields Medal.
Follow the link: http://www.macfound.org/site/c.lkLXJ8MQKrH/b.2070789/apps/nl/content2.asp?content_id={6DBB4260-1605-496C-8311-36328C702E50}¬oc=1
Congrutulations to the Taos!
Chiu Ying
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Today is Sept 27, 2006. I read the article about Terence Tao.
In the article, it said that "Tao offered a proof of the longstanding conjecture that there exist arbitrarily long arithmetic progressions consisting only of prime numbers."
Two ideas came to my mind:
a) Where are our mathematics classmates (those who studied 8 papers mathematics)? What status are they in? Possibly we should enlarge our circle to include them.
b) I thought that prime numbers do not have fixed patterns, although the last digit can only be 1, 3, 7 and 9. how can there be an arithmetic progression consisiting only of prime numbers? Can Grace Leung enlighten us using our BSc layman language?
Today is October 6 (lunar August 15).
I am pleased to report that Grace Leung's reply dated Sept 28 gives the following helpful hint:
please read the example quoted in the following article (5th paragraph).
http://www.icm2006.org/dailynews/fields_tao_info_en.pdf
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