Partition theory studies the ways in which a positive integer can be expressed as a sum of positive integers, without regard to order. Originating in the work of Euler, it has evolved through the ...

刘若川，1980年5月出生，辽宁沈阳人。数学家，中国科学院院士。1999年入读北京大学，先后获北京大学学士、硕士学位；2008年获美国麻省理工学院博士学位。2012年起在北京大学任教。现任北京大学博雅讲席教授、数学科学学院院长，中国数学会第十四届副理 ...

Iwasawa theory investigates the variation of arithmetic invariants—such as class groups and Selmer groups—along infinite towers of number fields, most classically the cyclotomic Z p-extension of the ...

In 1994, an earthquake of a proof shook up the mathematical world. The mathematician Andrew Wiles had finally settled Fermat’s Last Theorem, a central problem in number theory that had remained open ...

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