>>11875351Well he had a pretty interesting result last year or so I think. Its kind of hard because in the field he is working in, prime gaps, if he were to have a big result he would overnight become very cool.
Its kind of like if you spent your whole career getting auxiliary results and then finally getting a proof of Navier-Stokes. You become famous overnight, but the work was done all the way through.
Anyways, not my area of expertise, but that was the inpression I got from what he was doing