ALGEBRA AND COMBINATORICS SEMINAR Tuesday 16 September 2008, 2pm in Priestly 641 Elise Croft, Maths, UQ The twin prime conjecture Abstract What is the twin prime conjecture and why does its proof remain so elusive? A brief history of the problem's development will be explored as well as a focus on the recent work by Goldston et al on the gaps between primes and what this work means for the twin prime conjecture. All welcome. http://www.maths.uq.edu.au/cdmc/Seminars.html