Two pieces of news from the world of mathematics. The first is related to a breakthrough in the study of prime numbers and their properties. As announced in the lovely MathWorld web site maintained by Eric W. Weisstein, Ben Green and Terence Tao (who is 29, and became a full professor at UCLA at age 25) have proven that there exist arithmetic progressions of primes of any given length. This is a typical example of a result whose statement requires only very basic mathematical knowledge to grasp, but whose proof I will never be able to understand. The news posting on this result written by Eric W. Weisstein makes for a good after lunch reading.
Now for the (extended) family, and in some sense concurrency related, part of this posting. Yesterday, Kári Ragnarsson (one of Anna Ingólfsdóttir's sons) defended his PhD thesis in topology at the department of mathematics at M.I.T.. Kári's thesis is entitled "Frobenius transfers and p-local finite groups", and has been supervised by Haynes Miller. Congratulations Kári!
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