Tag Archives: number theory

Matt Baker’s Math Blog: A Tour

Posted on April 30, 2020 by Vanessa Rivera-Quinones

This week I dived into the math blogosphere and found this cool blog Matt Baker’s Math Blog by Dr. Matt Baker,  a professor, and Associate Dean at Georgia Tech School of Mathematics.  This blog was featured back in 2013 in Evelyn’s … Continue reading →

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There’s a New Prime! And It Looks Like…Wait…What?

Posted on January 25, 2016 by annahaensch

A new prime has been discovered. It’s really long. Over 22 million digits. And the number has just been sitting on a computer in the middle of Missouri unnoticed since September. But that’s not the crazy thing about it. The … Continue reading →

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Narrowing the Gap

Posted on June 14, 2013 by bfinegold

A group of seasoned mathematicians including Terence Tao are working to improve on Yitang Zhang’s exciting recent proof that there are infinitely many pairs of consecutive primes separated by no more than 70 million.  A glance at the polymath8 wiki … Continue reading →

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This Week in Number Theory

Posted on May 16, 2013 by evelynjlamb

By now you’ve probably heard the announcements of two big results in number theory: Yitang Zhang of the University of New Hampshire proved that there are infinitely many pairs of primes whose differences are under 70 million, and Harald Helfgott … Continue reading →

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