An interview with Professor James Maynard

Abstract

James Maynard is a mathematician known for his influential work in analytic number theory. Born in 1987, he earned his bachelor's and master's at Queen's College, Cambridge, and his DPhil from Balliol College, Oxford in 2013, advised by Roger Heath-Brown. He gained international recognition for his 2013 breakthrough on small gaps between prime numbers, introducing new methods that significantly advanced and simplified earlier results. He proved the Duffin-Schaeffer conjecture and, more recently, improved Riemann zeta function zero density estimates with collaborators. Among his many honors are the 2014 SASTRA Ramanujan Prize, 2022 Fields Medal, and a 2023 election as a Fellow of the Royal Society.