Richard Arenstorf - Definition and Overview

Richard Arenstorf is a mathematician who worked at NASA, where he received the NASA Medal for Exceptional Scientific Achievement in 1966, and retired as a full professor from Vanderbilt University. At Vanderbilt he specialized in celestial mechanics and analytic number theory.

He provided potential proofs of the twin prime conjecture and the Hardy-Littlewood conjecture in May 2004. After finding an error in Lemma 8, however, he withdrew his paper in June 2004.

External link

• Paper offering proof of twin prime conjecture (http://arxiv.org/abs/math.NT/0405509)
• Professor Arenstorf's Homepage (http://www.math.vanderbilt.edu/faculty/Arenstorf.html)