Richard Arenstorf

Richard F. Arenstorf is an American mathematician who worked at NASA, where he received the NASA Exceptional Achievement Medal in 1966. Arenstorf 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 links

* [http://sitemason.vanderbilt.edu/site/kVPzLq Professor Arenstorf's Homepage]
* [http://arxiv.org/abs/math/0405509v1 Arenstorf's paper on the twin prime conjecture]