Enrico Bombieri

Enrico Bombieri, Professor Emeritus in the School of Mathematics, has been awarded the 2020 Crafoord Prize in mathematics. Bombieri is cited for outstanding and influential contributions in all major areas of mathematics, particularly number theory...

PBS THIRTEEN's Counting From Infinity: Yitang Zhang and the Twin Prime Conjecture chronicles a string of mathematical discoveries that began with a solution to the Twin Prime Conjecture. In 2013, Yitang Zhang, Member (2014) in the School of...

Proving the Riemann hypothesis remains arguably the most important unsolved problem in pure mathematics—one whose solution would fetch a $1 million Millennium Prize from the Clay Mathematics Institute. Conversely, as the number theorist Enrico...