"There is much pleasure in useless knowledge." — Bertrand Russell
Dan Piponi passed along the following link to a nice paper summarizing the major results in number theory of the last decade or so. It’s mostly over my head (Dan is substantially smarter than I) but pretty interesting nonetheless. [1010.2484] Progress in number theory in the years 1998-2009.
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