Uploaded April 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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Yet their distribution is a mystery that has stumped mathematicians for centuries. We still don't understand why some primes sit so far apart from the next and some so close together.

James Maynard is a mathematician working primarily in the world of prime numbers. In 2022 he was awarded the Fields medal, the most prestigious award in maths for those under 40, for his contributions to analytic number theory.

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