Waynflete Professor of Pure Mathematics, Professor Ben Green FRS, is one of fourteen researchers at the University of Oxford have been awarded Advanced Grants from the European Research Council (ERC), each worth up to €2.5 million over a period of five years.
The ERC Advanced Grants competition is part of the EU’s Horizon Europe programme and is one of the most prestigious and competitive funding schemes in the EU.
Professor Green’s project will explore questions in pure mathematics about patterns and structure within sets of whole numbers. The project brings together two areas of modern mathematics: additive combinatorics, which studies how sets of numbers behave when they are added together, and higher-order Fourier analysis, which can detect mathematical patterns beyond the reach of classical methods. Ultimately, this could open new ways to understand the hidden structure of numbers.
Read more on the University of Oxford’s website.