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An inmate's love of mathematics leads to discovery in number theory

In solitary confinement, he publishes paper in top math journal. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. In his autobiography, Weil ...
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One Third Of Math's "Grand Unified Theory" Has (Almost Certainly) Just Been Toppled

Katie has a PhD in maths, specializing in the intersection of dynamical systems and number theory. She reports on topics from maths and history to society and animals. Katie has a PhD in maths, ...
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Check Digits Are A Little Piece Of Number Theory You Use Every Day

Katie has a PhD in maths, specializing in the intersection of dynamical systems and number theory. She reports on topics from maths and history to society and animals. Katie has a PhD in maths, ...
The Harvard Crimson

Fifteen Questions: Melanie Matchett Wood on Number Theory, Failing, and Her Lifetime Supply of Hagoromo Chalk

Melanie Matchett Wood is a professor of mathematics at Harvard University and a Radcliffe Alumnae Professor at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. In October, she was awarded the MacArthur ...
Wired

A ‘Grand Unified Theory’ of Math Just Got a Little Bit Closer

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. In 1994, an earthquake of a proof shook up the mathematical world. The mathematician Andrew Wiles had finally settled Fermat’s Last ...
University of Bristol

Unit information: Algebraic Number Theory 4 in 2014/15

MATH 11511 (Number Theory & Group Theory), MATH 21800 (Algebra 2). MATH 30200 (Number Theory), Group Theory (MATH 33300) and Galois Theory (MATH M2700) are recommended but not necessary. Students may ...