Many complicated advances in research mathematics are spurred by a desire to understand some of the simplest questions about numbers. How are prime numbers distributed in the integers? Are there ...

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For some inexplicable reason, my classroom is located in the middle of the math wing. I’ve never personally loved math and offer the utmost respect to these colleagues who comprise about one tenth of ...

Recent progress on the “sum product” problem recalls a celebrated mathematical result that revealed the power of miniature number systems. It’s one thing to turn a cartwheel in an open field. It’s ...