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 ...

One of the first collaborations Xinyi Yuan and Wei Zhang ever undertook was a trip to the Social Security office. It was the fall of 2004 and the two of them were promising young graduate students in ...

The grandest project in mathematics has received a rare gift, in the form of a mammoth 350-page paper posted in February that will change the way researchers around the world investigate some of the ...

Katie has a PhD in maths, specializing in the intersection of dynamical systems and number theory. She reports on topics from maths and history to society and animals. Katie has a PhD in maths, ...

THE general outlines and the methods employed by the author will be familiar to readers who have seen the first volume. He has made a study of standard works and papers by Bachmann, Hensel, Hubert, ...

In a forthcoming paper in this journal, entitled "Bad company objection to Joongol Kim's adverbial theory of numbers", Namjoong Kim presents an ingenious Russell-style paradox based on an analogue of ...

THE book under review is a great contrast in many ways to the “Théorie des Nombres” of M. Edouard Lucas, the first volume of which has recently appeared under the ægis of Messrs. Gauthier-Villars. The ...