James Maynard | |
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 Maynard in 2013 | |
| Born | James Alexander Maynard 10 June 1987 Chelmsford, Essex, England |
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| Known for | Work on prime gaps |
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| Fields | Number theory |
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| Thesis | Topics in analytic number theory (2013) |
| Doctoral advisor | Roger Heath-Brown |
James Alexander Maynard FRS (born 10 June 1987) is an English mathematician working in analytic number theory and in particular the theory of prime numbers.[1] In 2017, he was appointed Research Professor at Oxford.[2] Maynard is a fellow[3] of St John's College, Oxford. He was awarded the Fields Medal in 2022[4] and the New Horizons in Mathematics Prize in 2023.
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