Primes

Mathematicians Clear Hurdle in Quest to Decode Primes

"In a paper posted in SeptemberPaul Nelson of the Institute for Advanced Study has solved the subconvexity problem, a kind of lighter-weight version of Riemann’s question. The proof is a significant achievement on its own and teases the possibility that even greater discoveries related to prime numbers may be in store."

Yitang Zhang's Santa Barbara Beach Walk

Grand ideas have a way of turning up in unusual settings, far from an office or a chalkboard. Months ago, Quanta Magazine set out to photograph some of the world’s most accomplished scientists and mathematicians, including former Member Yitang Zhang...

A Mathematical Breakthrough: Yitang Zhang and the Twin Prime Conjecture

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...

A Mathematician Confronts March Madness

Come the middle of March, a remotely curious college-hoops observer, innocently typing “March Madness” into Google, encounters a swarm of numbers related to the N.C.A.A.’s annual basketball tournament. ... Ken Ono, Member (1995–97) in the School of...