Wiles's proof of Fermat's Last Theorem is a proof by British mathematician Andrew Wiles of a special case of the modularity theorem for elliptic curves. Together with Ribet's theorem, it provides a pr
Andrew John Wiles
Number theory is a branch of mathematics devoted primarily to the study of the integers and arithmetic functions. Number theorists study prime numbers as well as the properties of mathematical objects
The Babylonians demonstrated an early understanding of Pythagorean triples.
The Riemann hypothesis is of interest in analytic number theory.
Number theorists Paul Erdős and Terence Tao in 1985, when Erdős was 72 and Tao was 10
Riemann zeta function ζ(s) in the complex plane. The color of a point s gives the value of ζ(s): dark colors denote values close to zero and hue gives the value's argument.