Shifting workers out of agriculture is India’s biggest structural transformation challenge. Headline numbers suggest that it ...

At Berkshire Hathaway’s annual meeting last month, Warren Buffett confirmed he will step down as chief executive at year-end and hand the reins to vice chairman Greg Abel. "I think the time has ...

“It’s a fairly simple statement that has applications everywhere, in all sorts of math, not just number theory,” said James Rickards, a mathematician at the University of Colorado, Boulder. “But it’s ...

The University of Colorado Center for Number Theory has interests spanning number theory, from analytic to algebraic. There is a focus on arithmetic geometry, including arithmetic dynamics, elliptic ...

The Riemann hypothesis is the most important open question in number theory—if not all of mathematics. It has occupied experts for more than 160 years. And the problem appeared both in mathemati ...

Number theory is the branch of mathematics that deals with the properties of whole numbers. Many number theorists are motivated purely by mathematical intrigue, and historically number theory had ...

Today, the 35-year-old mathematician, now a professor at the University of Oxford, was awarded the Fields Medal for his “spectacular contributions in analytic number theory,” according to the award ...

First, we develop further the theory of groups, using permutation groups as a key example. We investigate the important concepts of normal subgroups and quotient groups. Secondly, we introduce rings, ...

As Virat Kohli calls time on Test cricket, there’s a feeling of what could have been. Step past that, remember the craft, passion and the grit, and look under the hood. The numbers will show that as a ...

That day, however, he was looking at results from number theory, which deals with the properties of integers such as prime numbers. He came across a sequence of numbers that started with the value ...