Think back to elementary school during which you learned about a seemingly useless mathematical relic called prime numbers. Your teacher told you in class one day that they are special numbers, ...

Universality theorems occupy a central role in analytic number theory, demonstrating that families of analytic functions—including the prototypical Riemann zeta-function—can approximate an extensive ...

Numbers like pi, e and phi often turn up in unexpected places in science and mathematics. Pascal's triangle and the Fibonacci sequence also seem inexplicably widespread in nature. Then there's the ...