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Étienne Fouvry: Hunting for prime numbers
… unsolved for many hundreds of years. The French Academy of Sciences recently awarded him the ‘Sophie Germain - … of people who lived so long ago,” reveals the researcher. During his time as an assistant at Université de Bordeaux, … supervision of mathematicians Henryk Iwaniec and Jean-Marc Deshouillers, he focused on prime numbers - these whole …Published on: