Daniel Goldston

Alan Daniel " Dan " Goldston ( born January 4, 1954 in Oakland ) is an American mathematician who deals with analytic number theory.

Life and career

Goldston grew up in Piedmont up in California and studied from 1971 at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the University of California, Berkeley, where he 1975 a bachelor's degree in 1978 for his Masters degree earned and received his doctorate in 1981 at RS Lehman. In 1981, he was Assistant Professor at the University of Minnesota (Duluth ) and the Institute for Advanced Study ( 1982/83, as well as 1990). Since 1983 he is at San Jose State University, where he is a professor of mathematics since 1985 Associate Professor and since 1988. He was a visiting scholar at the University of Toronto (1994, with John Friedlander ) and at MSRI (1999).

Goldston has been known for a set from the environment of the prime twins conjecture. He proved with Cem Yıldırım and János Pintz 2005 after his first proof with Yıldırım was faulty and was withdrawn, that is true asymptotically for the distances of consecutive primes:

In other words, there is a pair for each successive prime numbers p and p ' with

The three mathematicians was in 2014 jointly awarded the Cole Prize for number theory.