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James Maynard
Mathematician

James Maynard

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Advancing the study of gaps between prime numbers.

Clusters of primes · Missing digits

Born
June 1987
Birthplace
Chelmsford

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James Maynard

James Maynard is an English mathematician whose analytic number theory research concerns prime numbers and approximation.

Early life

Education

Grew up in Chelmsford, studied at Cambridge and completed an Oxford doctorate under Roger Heath-Brown in 2013.

Career

  1. 2013

    Prime gaps

    Developed a new approach to bounded gaps between primes.

  2. 2017

    Oxford

    Was appointed a research professor.

  3. 2019

    Duffin–Schaeffer conjecture

    Proved the conjecture with Dimitris Koukoulopoulos.

  4. 2022

    Fields Medal

    Received the mathematics medal.

Contributions

Clusters of primes

Showed that bounded intervals can contain arbitrarily many primes infinitely often.

Missing digits

Proved that infinitely many primes can omit any specified decimal digit.

Beyond work

Family

Married medical doctor Eleanor Grant.

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