THIS monograph, the title of which is somewhat abstruse, deals in fact with certain aspects of prime-number theory. Though self-contained in presentation, it is a continuation of the author's ...

It’s not often that a mathematics textbook is described as “gorgeous” or “a work of practical art.” But An Illustrated Theory of Numbers by Martin Weissman, associate professor of mathematics at UC ...

Earlier this year, a trio of mathematicians decided to make lemons into lemonade — and ended up making major headway on a problem that mathematicians have been thinking about for centuries.

Noncyclic BCH and Srivastava codes over the subgroup of the groups of units of Galois rings \({G}{R}({{q}}^{{u}},{m})\) for advanced error control This paper presents ...

There are three kinds of prime numbers. The first is a solitary outlier: 2, the only even prime. After that, half the primes leave a remainder of 1 when divided by 4. The other half leave a remainder ...

After the star-studded mystery thriller The Number 23 debuted in cinemas in 2007, many people became convinced that they were seeing the eponymous number everywhere. I was in school at that time, and ...

The MPS Conference on Universal Statistics in Number Theory seeks to create a deeper understanding to the following question: Why do constants and distributions from statistical physics appear in ...

Most people will probably remember the times tables from primary school quizzes. There might be patterns in some of them (the simple doubling of the 2 times table) but others you just learnt by rote.