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Edward Waring — Infobox Scientist name = Edward Waring box width = 300px birth date = 1736 birth place = Old Heath, Shropshire, England death date = death date and age|1798|08|15|1736|01|01 death place = Pontesbury, Shropshire, England nationality = United… … Wikipedia
Number theory — A Lehmer sieve an analog computer once used for finding primes and solving simple diophantine equations. Number theory is a branch of pure mathematics devoted primarily to the study of the integers. Number theorists study prime numbers (the… … Wikipedia
Waring, Edward — ▪ English mathematician born 1734, Old Heath, near Shrewsbury, Shropshire, England died August 15, 1798, Pontesbury, Shropshire English mathematician whose primary research interests were in algebra and number theory. Waring attended… … Universalium
Waring's problem — In number theory, Waring s problem, proposed in 1770 by Edward Waring, asks whether for every natural number k there exists an associated positive integer s such that every natural number is the sum of at most s k th powers of natural numbers… … Wikipedia
Timeline of number theory — A timeline of number theory.Before 1000 BC* ca. 20,000 BC Nile Valley, Ishango Bone: possibly the earliest reference to prime numbers and Egyptian multiplication.1st millennium* 250 Diophantus writes Arithmetica , one of the earliest treatises on … Wikipedia
List of number theory topics — This is a list of number theory topics, by Wikipedia page. See also List of recreational number theory topics Topics in cryptography Contents 1 Factors 2 Fractions 3 Modular arithmetic … Wikipedia
Goldbach's conjecture — is one of the oldest unsolved problems in number theory and in all of mathematics. It states::Every even integer greater than 2 can be written as the sum of two primes.Expressing a given even number as a sum of two primes is called a Goldbach… … Wikipedia
Analytic number theory — In mathematics, analytic number theory is a branch of number theory that uses methods from mathematical analysis to solve number theoretical problems. [Page 7 of Apostol 1976] It is often said to have begun with Dirichlet s introduction of… … Wikipedia
Stern prime — A Stern prime, named for Moritz Abraham Stern, is a prime number that is not the sum of a smaller prime and twice the square of a nonzero integer. Or, to put it algebraically, if for a prime q there is no smaller prime p and nonzero integer b… … Wikipedia
List of mathematics articles (W) — NOTOC Wad Wadge hierarchy Wagstaff prime Wald test Wald Wolfowitz runs test Wald s equation Waldhausen category Wall Sun Sun prime Wallenius noncentral hypergeometric distribution Wallis product Wallman compactification Wallpaper group Walrasian… … Wikipedia
