Seminar series
Date
Fri, 07 Feb 2020
Time
14:00 -
15:00
Location
L1
Speaker
Prof James Maynard
Prime numbers have been looked at for centuries, but some of the most basic questions about them are still major unsolved problems. These problems began as idle curiosities, but have grown to become hugely important not only in pure mathematics, but also have many applications to the real world. I'll talk about some of these quests to find patterns in the sequence of prime numbers.