A Teenager Solved a Stubborn Prime Number ‘Look-Alike’ Riddle
[ad_1] Mathematicians wanted to better understand these numbers that so closely resemble the most fundamental objects in number theory, the primes. It turned out that in 1899—a decade before Carmichael’s…
Meet the Ukrainian Number Theorist Who Won Math’s Highest Honor
[ad_1] 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 began their assault on Ukraine,…