The Langlands programme has inspired and befuddled mathematicians for more than 50 years. A major advance has now opened up ...

Since then, Maynard has given the number theory community ample proof that he is more than just a clone of one of the most famous mathematicians in the world. In 2019, for instance, he and ...

Despite being only 26, he was already a legend in the mathematics world. Two years earlier he had completed his dissertation, in which he articulated a new geometric theory based on objects he’d ...

Number theory, the study of the properties of positive integers, is perhaps the purest form of mathematics. At first sight, it may seem far too abstract to apply to the natural world.

That was surprising because, as you may recall, when McKay first spotted 196,884, he was looking at a special sequence in number theory. The second number in that sequence is 21,493,760—Thompson ...

Wood was recognized for her research “addressing foundational questions in number theory,” which focuses on whole numbers—1, 2, 3, and so on, rather than 1.5 or 3/8, for instance.