I hope nobody will think this TOO incongruous amid all the war news, but
there has been a major breakthrough in prime number theory this past few
days. I have written it up on my website in language I hope any
literate and patient non-mathematician can grasp. (But in haste, so you
must excuse the odd typo.) The result was got by two scholars working
together, Daniel Goldston of San Jose State University and Cem Yildirim of
Bogazici University in Istanbul, Turkey. I should like to be able to tell
you that this is a Jewish-Muslim collaboration, but I don’t actually know
Yildirim’s confession. (And he might, of course, be Jewish himself–Turkey
has lots of Jews.) Any information on this would be appreciated. If it
**is** a Jewish-Muslim collaboration, that would be a very happy omen