number theory

Akshay Venkatesh has been awarded the Fields medal 2018 for his work exploring the boundaries of number theory.

Peter Scholze has received the Fields medal 2018 for transforming arithmetic algebraic geometry.

Robert Langlands wins for his "visionary program".

PhD student June Park talks to us about geometry and number theory.

If you like playing with numbers, then this one's for you!

Mathematicians are working hard to understand an impenetrable proof of the famous ABC conjecture.

In these two short videos the legendary Andrew Wiles talks about what it was like to prove Fermat's Last Theorem, and what it feels like to do maths.

Image © Heidelberg Laureate Forum Foundation / Flemming – 2016

James Maynard, one of the prize winners at the European Congress of Mathematics 2016, is counting primes that don't have 7s in them. But why?

One of the greatest honours in maths has been awarded for the proof of Fermat's last theorem.

A fascinating discovery sheds new light on the work of the Indian mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan.

In this excellent talk the mathematician Vicky Neale gives a fascinating and easy-to-follow introduction to the prime numbers.

Fermat's little theorem and fake primes.