Timeline of Number Theory - 21st Century

21st Century

  • 2002 - Manindra Agrawal, Nitin Saxena, and Neeraj Kayal of IIT Kanpur present an unconditional deterministic polynomial time algorithm to determine whether a given number is prime.
  • 2002 - Preda Mihăilescu proves Catalan's conjecture.
  • 2004 - Ben Green and Terence Tao prove the Green–Tao theorem, which states that the sequence of prime numbers contains arbitrarily long arithmetic progressions.

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