Richard Arenstorf

Richard Arenstorf

male
Vanderbilt University, Hardy-Littlewood conjecture, NASA Exceptional Achievement Medal, twin prime conjecture, analytic number theory, celestial mechanics
Richard F. Arenstorf is an American mathematician who worked at NASA, where he received the NASA Exceptional Achievement Medal in 1966. Arenstorf...
Daniel Goldston

Daniel Goldston

male, 55 years old
San Jose State University, Cem Yildirim, Daniel Alan Goldston, Elliott-Halberstam conjecture, twin prime conjecture, number theory
Daniel Alan Goldston is an American mathematician who specializes in number theory. He is currently a professor of mathematics at San Jose State...
Helmut Maier

Helmut Maier

male
Erdős number 1, mathematician, Number theorist, American, Erdős number, twin prime conjecture
Helmut Maier is an American mathematician who made significant progress in the study of Twin prime conjecture. His Erdős number is 1.
Michel Balazard

Michel Balazard

male
Erdős number 2, proof, French, lemma, Number theorist, mathematical proof…twin prime conjecture
Michel Balazard is a French mathematician. On June 3, 2004, he pointed out a flaw in a proposed proof of the Twin prime conjecture submitted by...

Alphonse de Polignac

male, deceased (1890)
prime gap, mathematician, French, prime, prime number, Polignac's conjecture…twin prime conjecture
Alphonse de Polignac (1817 - 1890) was a French mathematician. In 1849 he made Polignac's conjecture: :For every natural number "k", there are...
Peter Swinnerton-Dyer

Peter Swinnerton-Dyer

male, 82 years old
Erdős number 2, Academic of the University of Cambridge, Sylvester Medal, Alumni of Trinity College, Cambridge, Baronet in the Baronetage of England, number theory…Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer conjecture
Sir Henry Peter Francis Swinnerton-Dyer, 16th Baronet (born 2 August 1927), commonly known as Peter Swinnerton-Dyer, is an English mathematician...
Yuri I. Manin

Yuri I. Manin

male, 72 years old
Vyacheslav Shokurov, Rolf Schock Prize laureate, function field, mathematician, Russian, algebraic geometry…Mordell conjecture
Yuri Ivanovitch Manin is a Russian mathematician, known for work in algebraic geometry and diophantine geometry, and many expository works ranging...
Louis Mordell

Louis Mordell

male, deceased (1972)
Erdős number 2, Academic of the Victoria University of Manchester, Victoria University of Manchester, World War I, British, Jewish person…Mordell conjecture
Louis Joel Mordell (28 January 1888 - 12 March 1972) was a British mathematician, known for pioneering research in number theory. He was born in...
Don Zagier

Don Zagier

male, 58 years old
complex L-series, elliptic curve, L-function, Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer conjecture, Erdős number 2, Max Planck Institute for Mathematics
Don Bernhard Zagier is a German mathematician. He is currently one of the directors of the Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in Bonn, Germany,...
Alexander Beilinson

Alexander Beilinson

male
University of Chicago, Beilinson-Soulé conjectures, Kazhdan-Lusztig conjectures, motivic spectral sequence, Lichtenbaum conjectures, Alexander A. Beilinson…Bloch's conjecture, Tate conjecture, Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer conjecture, Hodge conjecture
Alexander A. Beilinson is the David and Mary Winton Green University Professor at the University of Chicago and works on mathematics. His research...