Who's Who in Landau's Problems Research
A directory of researchers working on Landau's problems on prime numbers
At the 1912 International Congress of Mathematicians, Edmund Landau listed four problems about primes that mathematics could not yet prove. Now known as Landau's problems, they are the Goldbach conjecture, the twin prime conjecture, Legendre's conjecture, and the conjecture that infinitely many primes have the form n2+1. Every one is still open.
This site is the umbrella directory for all four problems. It catalogs the Top 100 researchers across the family, with their institutions, and offers a curated reading list.
The ranking consolidates the four member directories, and the table shows a column per member in this order: gb Goldbach, leg Legendre, n2p1 n2+1, tp twin primes.
Where to start
- Home: This page.
- The Top 100: the canonical ranked list, sortable and filterable in your browser.
- Locations: where the Top 100 are based, shown by world region with maps.
- Institutions: the institutions ranked three ways: where the Top 100 work today, where they earned their PhDs, and a canonical blend of the two.
- In Memoriam: researchers in this directory who are no longer with us.
- Genealogy: close relations of the Top 100 through advisor-student lineage in the Mathematics Genealogy Project.
- Six Degrees: the coauthorship graph among the Top 100: who has written papers with whom, and how few steps separate any two of them.
- Reading List: the recent topical papers ranked by the prominence of their authors in this directory, plus the most-cited papers of all time.
- Overlap: the researchers who also appear across the related conjecture sites.
- About: what this site is, who built it, and where to find the methodology, the open dataset, and how to request a correction.