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Why prime numbers still fascinate mathematicians, 2,300 years later

  • Written by Martin H. Weissman, Associate Professor of Mathematics, University of California, Santa Cruz
Primes still have the power to surprise. Chris-LiveLoveClick/shutterstock.com

On March 20, American-Canadian mathematician Robert Langlands received the Abel Prize, celebrating lifetime achievement in mathematics. Langlands’ research demonstrated how concepts from geometry, algebra and analysis could be brought together by a common link to...

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