number theory

noun

, Mathematics.

1. the study of integers and their relation to one another.

number theory

noun

1. the study of integers, their properties, and the relationship between integers

Word History and Origins

Origin of number theory¹

First recorded in 1910–15

Example Sentences

“Under the hood it’s a lot of number theory, but at its surface it’s geometry,” said Kedlaya.

From Quanta Magazine

In 2017, during a seminar celebrating Farb’s 50th birthday, Kisin listened to Wolfson’s talk and realized with surprise that their ideas about polynomials were related to questions in his own work in number theory.

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You can even use it to resolve problems in the distant world of number theory!

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Proving the conjecture true or false would be an epochal event in number theory, allowing mathematicians to better understand the distribution of prime numbers.

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This is a fundamental insight that crops up everywhere in modern number theory, in the Langlands Program and arithmetic geometry.

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The application of the number theory issues in a barren and futile arithmetical mysticism.

From Project Gutenberg

With the further development of the number-theory Pythagoreanism becomes entirely arbitrary and without principle.

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He founded number theory, the study of properties of whole numbers, in 1640.

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