[math-fun] Closing the prime gap
An interest article in Quanta Magazine about the work of Yitang Zhang, James Maynard, et al --together with tidbits about offers Zhang has had since his discovery: <https://www.simonsfoundation.org/quanta/20131119-together-and-alone-closing-the-prime-gap/> Together and Alone, Closing the Prime Gap<https://www.simonsfoundation.org/quanta/20131119-together-and-alone-closing-the-prime-gap/>
Can anyone explain what's up with the way the name Yıldırım (the third author of the Goldston, Pintz, and Yıldırım paper) is spelled in the article? I've pasted it into the preceding sentence, so you can see what I'm talking about. The odd font-choice is too consistent (and browser-independent) to be accidental, but I've never seen anything like it before. Note that the "i" in the surname of coauthor Pintz is normal. Are there special orthographic conventions for Tırkısh? Jim Propp On Monday, November 25, 2013, W. Edwin Clark <wclark@mail.usf.edu> wrote:
An interest article in Quanta Magazine about the work of Yitang Zhang, James Maynard, et al --together with tidbits about offers Zhang has had since his discovery: < https://www.simonsfoundation.org/quanta/20131119-together-and-alone-closing-...
Together and Alone, Closing the Prime Gap< https://www.simonsfoundation.org/quanta/20131119-together-and-alone-closing-...
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What's odd? Turkish has both dotted i and a undotted ı (and this causes no end of grief for Java programmers and .toLowerCase() but I digress). I'm not seeing any font changes . . . On Tue, Nov 26, 2013 at 1:58 PM, James Propp <jamespropp@gmail.com> wrote:
Can anyone explain what's up with the way the name Yıldırım (the third author of the Goldston, Pintz, and Yıldırım paper) is spelled in the article? I've pasted it into the preceding sentence, so you can see what I'm talking about. The odd font-choice is too consistent (and browser-independent) to be accidental, but I've never seen anything like it before. Note that the "i" in the surname of coauthor Pintz is normal. Are there special orthographic conventions for Tırkısh?
Jim Propp
On Monday, November 25, 2013, W. Edwin Clark <wclark@mail.usf.edu> wrote:
An interest article in Quanta Magazine about the work of Yitang Zhang, James Maynard, et al --together with tidbits about offers Zhang has had since his discovery: < https://www.simonsfoundation.org/quanta/20131119-together-and-alone-closing-...
Together and Alone, Closing the Prime Gap< https://www.simonsfoundation.org/quanta/20131119-together-and-alone-closing-...
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It may be irrelevant, but not long ago the NY Times had a reporter named Jennifer 8. Lee: < http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jennifer_8._Lee >. --Dan On 2013-11-26, at 1:58 PM, James Propp wrote:
Can anyone explain what's up with the way the name Yıldırım (the third author of the Goldston, Pintz, and Yıldırım paper) is spelled in the article? I've pasted it into the preceding sentence, so you can see what I'm talking about. The odd font-choice is too consistent (and browser-independent) to be accidental, but I've never seen anything like it before. Note that the "i" in the surname of coauthor Pintz is normal. Are there special orthographic conventions for Tırkısh?
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