Cem Yıldırım
Turkish mathematician
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Cem Yalçın Yıldırım (born 8 July 1961)[1] is a Turkish mathematician who specializes in number theory.
University of Toronto (PhD)
Cem Yalçın Yıldırım | |
|---|---|
| Born | 8 July 1961 |
| Citizenship | Republic of Turkey |
| Alma mater | Middle East Technical University (BS) University of Toronto (PhD) |
| Awards | Cole Prize (2014) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Mathematics |
| Institutions | Bilkent University Boğaziçi University |
| John Friedlander | |
| Website | math.boun.edu.tr/../yildirim.htm |
Education
Yıldırım obtained his BSc from Middle East Technical University in Ankara, Turkey and his PhD from the University of Toronto in 1990.[2] His advisor was John Friedlander. He is a faculty member at Boğaziçi University in Istanbul, Turkey.[1]
Research
In 2009, Dan Goldston, János Pintz, and Yıldırım proved that for any positive number ε there exist primes p and p′ such that the difference between p and p′ is smaller than ε log p.[3] This result was originally reported in 2003 by Goldston and Yıldırım but was later retracted.[4][5] Then Janos Pintz joined the team and they completed the proof in 2005 and developed the so called GPY sieve.
