Christopher Havens came upon his love of math while in solitary confinement. A decade later, he published a paper on number theory in a top mathematics journal.

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Quadratic reciprocity lurks around many corners in mathematics. By proving it, number theorists reimagined their whole field.

But McKay couldn’t shake the feeling that the two extremely different mathematical fields of geometry and number theory could be connected.

MATH 462 Number Theory An introduction to the theory of numbers to include such topics as divisibility, congruence, diophantine equations, quadratic reciprocity, the theory of prime numbers and ...

Fields Medals were awarded to two mathematicians, Laurent Lafforgue and Vladimir Voevodsky, who forged new links between different branches of mathematics.

Every so often, the Pentagon's blue sky research arm gets slammed, for funding investigations that are a little too down-to-Earth. Then Darpa turns around, and sponsors a new project to "develop a ...

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