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I have just found links to a few articles discussing the proof of the twin prime conjecture by Yitang Zhang, a once obscure mathematician working as a lecturer at the University of New Hampshire, and who according to reports had difficulty finding academic work and worked as an accountant and a Subway sandwich shop.
http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2013/05/twin-primes/2/
http://www.unh.edu/news/releases/2013/may/bp16zhang.cfm
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/21/science/solving-a-riddle-of-primes.html
For those not familiar with the conjecture, the twin primes conjecture is the following:
For every natural number k such that there are infinitely many prime pairs p and p' such that p'-p=2k
http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2013/05/twin-primes/2/
http://www.unh.edu/news/releases/2013/may/bp16zhang.cfm
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/21/science/solving-a-riddle-of-primes.html
For those not familiar with the conjecture, the twin primes conjecture is the following:
For every natural number k such that there are infinitely many prime pairs p and p' such that p'-p=2k