Mathematicians wanted to better understand these numbers that so closely resemble the most fundamental objects in number theory, the primes. It turned out…
In late February, just weeks after Maryna Viazovska learned she had won a Fields Medal—the highest honor for a mathematician—Russian tanks and war planes…
Intuition tells mathematicians that adding 2 to a number should completely change its multiplicative structure—meaning there should be no correlation between…
