"number theorists" refers to people who study and specialize in numbers. They investigate patterns and relationships among numbers, aiming to understand their properties and behaviors. Full definition
He got his master's degree in 1985 and hoped to continue his graduate studies at the University of California, San Diego, where another Chinese mathematician had arranged for him to work under the guidance of a well - respected number theorist. (discovermagazine.com)
«It is really, really bizarre,» says Stanford University postdoctoral researcher Robert Lemke Oliver, who, with Stanford number theorist Kannan Soundararajan, discovered this unusual prime predilection. (sciencenews.org)
An international group of computational number theorists has completed a systematic survey of «candidate» congruent numbers up to a trillion, extending earlier work that had stopped at a billion. (sciencemag.org)