Sentences with phrase «number theorists»
"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.
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«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.
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.
In a separate result also announced in January, Ono and another collaborator described the first formula that directly calculates p (n) for any n, a feat that had eluded number theorists for centuries.
«It will be another million years at least,» the late number theorist Paul Erdös pronounced, «before we understand the primes.»
Andrew Granville, a British number theorist working in the US, said in The Guardian «this could be the correct route to the big one».
What especially intrigues number theorists is that the algorithm and the proof of its efficiency are both very simple.
Many of his claims, Ono points out, have turned out to be incorrect, but his work still illuminates so much of what number theorists study today.
Number theorists have now finally managed to make sense of one of his more enigmatic statements, written just one year before his death in 1920.
In the process he discovered a slew of new composition laws for polynomials of higher degree — laws that number theorists had not even suspected existed.
It's a «delightful surprise» that such an easy algorithm had been missed all these years, says Carl Pomerance, a number theorist at Lucent Technologies» Bell Labs in Murray Hill, New Jersey.
According to number theorists, the money is fairly safe for now.
Mochizuki is «less isolated than he was before the process got started», says Kiran Kedlaya, a number theorist at the University of California, San Diego.
And Jeffrey Lagarias, a number theorist at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, says that he got far enough to see that Mochizuki's work is worth the effort.
«This is why all number theorists eagerly wanted to know about Mochizuki's approach.»