Exotic "prime numbers" inside black holes? Physicists explore a strange link between black holes and mathematics

Scientists found exotic prime numbers may play a role in black hole physics, revealing a surprising connection between number theory and the extreme environments of the universe.
Scientific American

Are prime numbers hiding inside black holes?

Like physics, math has its own set of “fundamental particles”—the prime numbers, which can’t be broken down into smaller ...
IFLScience

Check Digits Are A Little Piece Of Number Theory You Use Every Day

Katie has a PhD in maths, specializing in the intersection of dynamical systems and number theory. She reports on topics from maths and history to society and animals. Katie has a PhD in maths, ...
Science Daily

Scientists uncover a surprising connection between number theory and evolutionary genetics

Number theory, the study of the properties of positive integers, is perhaps the purest form of mathematics. At first sight, it may seem far too abstract to apply to the natural world. In fact, the ...
The Harvard Crimson

Fifteen Questions: Melanie Matchett Wood on Number Theory, Failing, and Her Lifetime Supply of Hagoromo Chalk

Melanie Matchett Wood is a professor of mathematics at Harvard University and a Radcliffe Alumnae Professor at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. In October, she was awarded the MacArthur ...