Cem Yıldırım

Cem Yalçın Yıldırım ( born July 8, 1961) is a Turkish mathematician who deals with analytic number theory.

Yildirim studied at the Technical University of the Middle East ( ODTÜ ) in Ankara ( bachelor's degree in 1982 ) and his doctorate in 1990 at the University of Toronto with John Friedlander ( Zeta Function Theory: Pair Correlation And Value distribution). He was at Bilkent University in Turkey and is currently Professor at Boğaziçi Üniversitesi in Istanbul.

Yildirim proved with Dan Goldston and János Pintz 2005 theorem on the number of twin primes with ( compared to the average, which is at a prime p of the order of log p ) a small distance from each other ( see Article Goldston ). The first proof with Goldston 2003 was flawed, but could be corrected in collaboration with Pintz. The three mathematicians was in 2014 jointly awarded the Cole Prize for number theory.