Number theory
Number theory 109 languages Article Talk Read Edit View history From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia For the book by André Weil, see Number theory: an approach through history; from Hammurapi to Legendre . Not to be confused with Numerology . The distribution of prime numbers is a central point of study in number theory. This Ulam spiral serves to illustrate it, hinting, in particular, at the conditional independence between being prime and being a value of certain quadratic polynomials. Mathematics hide Areas Number theory Geometry Algebra Calculus and analysis Discrete mathematics Logic and set theory Probability Statistics and decision sciences hide Relationship with sciences Physics Computation Biology Linguistics Economics Philosophy Education Portal v t e Number theory (or arithmetic or higher arithmetic in older usage) is a branch of pure mathematics devo...