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Eberly College of Science Mathematics Department
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Algebra and Number Theory

Penn State
Algebra and Number Theory

The Algebra and Number Theory group at Penn State consists of researchers working in a variety of fields including:

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  • Algebraic and Analytic Number Theory
  • Algebraic and Arithmetic Geometry
  • Algebraic Statistics
  • Combinatorics
  • Commutative Algebra
  • Cryptography
  • Group Theory
  • Finite Field Theory
    (incl. Coding Theory)
  • K-Theory
  • Operations Research
    (incl. Linear Programming & Game Theory)
     
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News

  1. June, 2013, Karl Schwede was awarded an NSF CAREER award.
  2. May 20, 2013, In a paper submitted to Annals of Mathematics on April 17, 2013, Yitang Zhang proved that there is a positive number N smaller than 70 million such that there are infinitely many pairs of primes that differ by N.
  3. May 13-14, 2013, In two papers posted at arXiv, Helfgott and Platt prove the ternary Goldbach conjecture: every odd integer n greater than 5 is the sum of three primes.
  4. October 15, 2012, Alvin Roth and Lloyd Shapley Win Nobel in Economic Science.
  5. October 1st -- 5th, 2012, Enrico Bombieri gives his series of Marker Lectures.
  6. June 8th -- 15th 2012, Penn State University hosted the conference Algebraic Statistics in the Alleghenies



Last updated 6/10/2013
Maintained by Leonid Vaserstein and Karl Schwede