Richard Arenstorf
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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.
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