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Mersenne prime Fermat prime twin prime numbers prime number theorem Riemann zeta function Fermat’s theorem Dirichlet’s theorem Wilson’s theorem sieve of Eratosthenes number theory amicable numbers perfect number Fibonacci sequence Riemann hypothesis golden ratio twin prime conjecture Fermat’s last theorem real number transfinite number Chinese remainder theorem

Key People

Fermat, portrait by Roland Lefèvre; in the Narbonne City Museums, France

Pierre de Fermat

French mathematician

Paul Erdős

Paul Erdős

Hungarian mathematician

Marin Mersenne

French mathematician

Godfrey Hardy, 1941.

G.H. Hardy

English mathematician

Michael Oser Rabin

Israeli American mathematician

Enrico Bombieri

Italian mathematician

Pafnuty Lvovich Chebyshev.

Pafnuty Chebyshev

Russian mathematician

Terence Tao

Australian mathematician

Atle Selberg

American mathematician

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Numbers and Mathematics