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An interview with Jack Thorne

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"I like the way coincidence plays a part in the subject." Jack Thorne, from the University of Cambridge, gave an invited lecture at the International Congress of Mathematicians 2018 on number theory. He talks to us about how his work is a little like "faceting a gemstone."


This content was produced in a collaboration with the London Mathematical Society.

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