Institutions
Where the twin prime conjecture research concentrates, three ways
Reading the columns
- # the headline rank: the average of the Training and Environment scores shown in the next two columns. Average the two numbers on any row and the rows sort by exactly that average, so the # position is always explainable from what you see.
- Training score from 0.00 to 1.00: where today's Top 100 earned their PhDs (verified Mathematics Genealogy records; 44 of 100 researchers covered), rank-weighted and scaled so the strongest training ground is 1.00. A dash means no recorded Top 100 alumni and counts as 0 in the average.
- Environment score from 0.00 to 1.00: the research gravity around the institution today; every Top 100 researcher contributes by rank and by distance (exponential decay, 100 km scale), scaled so the strongest environment is 1.00. A dash means no verified coordinates yet and counts as 0.
- Top 100 how many of the current Top 100 work there. Hover a row for names.
Click any header to sort; the score columns sort strongest-first. Candidates are the union of the Top 100's current institutions and their PhD schools, so pure training grounds appear even when nobody on the list works there today.
| # | Institution | Ctry | Top 100 | Training | Environment |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | University of London | GB | 0 | 1.00 | 0.68 |
| 2 | University of Cambridge | GB | 1 | 0.93 | 0.70 |
| 3 | University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign | US | 4 | 0.41 | 0.91 |
| 4 | Eötvös Loránd University | HU | 1 | 0.71 | 0.57 |
| 5 | Université de Montréal | CA | 2 | 0.30 | 0.75 |
| 6 | University of California, Berkeley | US | 0 | 0.65 | 0.36 |
| 7 | University of Oxford | GB | 3 | - | 1.00 |
| 8 | University of Genoa | IT | 0 | 0.83 | 0.15 |
| 9 | Université de Bordeaux | FR | 0 | 0.95 | 0.01 |
| 10 | Royal Holloway University of London | GB | 1 | - | 0.81 |
| 11 | Sorbonne Université | FR | 0 | 0.25 | 0.53 |
| 12 | University of Toronto | CA | 1 | 0.32 | 0.42 |
| 13 | Université du Québec à Montréal | CA | 1 | - | 0.74 |
| 14 | Université Paris-Saclay | FR | 0 | 0.24 | 0.48 |
| 15 | University of Michigan | US | 3 | 0.00 | 0.71 |
| 16 | University of Bristol | GB | 0 | 0.17 | 0.52 |
| 17 | Moscow State Pedagogical Institute | RU | 0 | 0.45 | 0.22 |
| 18 | University of California, Los Angeles | US | 1 | 0.29 | 0.35 |
| 19 | Queen's University | CA | 1 | 0.30 | 0.31 |
| 20 | University of Turku | FI | 2 | - | 0.59 |
| 21 | Alfréd Rényi Institute of Mathematics | HU | 1 | - | 0.58 |
| 22 | San Jose State University | US | 1 | - | 0.57 |
| 23 | Stanford University | US | 1 | - | 0.57 |
| 24 | Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique | FR | 3 | - | 0.56 |
| 25 | University of New South Wales | AU | 0 | 0.13 | 0.42 |
| 26 | Northwestern University | US | 1 | - | 0.53 |
| 27 | Shandong University | CN | 1 | 0.49 | 0.04 |
| 28 | University of Illinois Chicago | US | 1 | - | 0.52 |
| 29 | Princeton University | US | 1 | - | 0.48 |
| 30 | Institute for Advanced Study | US | 1 | - | 0.48 |
| 31 | Queen's University at Kingston | CA | 0 | 0.17 | 0.31 |
| 32 | Rutgers University | US | 1 | - | 0.48 |
| 33 | Cardiff University | GB | 1 | - | 0.47 |
| 34 | University of Wales | GB | 1 | - | 0.47 |
| 35 | University of Göttingen | DE | 1 | 0.25 | 0.22 |
| 36 | University of Alaska, Fairbanks | US | 0 | 0.46 | 0.00 |
| 37 | University of Padua | IT | 1 | - | 0.44 |
| 38 | Philipps-Universität Marburg | DE | 0 | 0.30 | 0.12 |
| 39 | Universität Berlin | DE | 0 | 0.39 | 0.03 |
| 40 | University of Waterloo | CA | 2 | - | 0.42 |
| 41 | UNSW Sydney | AU | 2 | - | 0.42 |
| 42 | Institut Élie Cartan de Lorraine | FR | 1 | - | 0.41 |
| 43 | University of Parma | IT | 1 | - | 0.40 |
| 44 | Université Laval | CA | 2 | - | 0.40 |
| 45 | Technische Universität Darmstadt | DE | 0 | 0.27 | 0.13 |
| 46 | University of Milan | IT | 0 | 0.22 | 0.18 |
| 47 | University of Salerno | IT | 2 | - | 0.39 |
| 48 | University of Freiburg | DE | 1 | - | 0.37 |
| 49 | Dartmouth College | US | 1 | - | 0.36 |
| 50 | Finnish Academy of Science and Letters | FI | 1 | - | 0.35 |
| 51 | Stellenbosch University | ZA | 1 | - | 0.34 |
| 52 | Tongji University | CN | 1 | - | 0.34 |
| 53 | Vilnius University | LT | 1 | - | 0.34 |
| 54 | Technion - Israel Institute of Technology | IL | 1 | - | 0.34 |
| 55 | Lomonosov Moscow State University | RU | 0 | 0.10 | 0.23 |
| 56 | Aix-Marseille Université | FR | 1 | - | 0.34 |
| 57 | Château Gombert | FR | 1 | - | 0.33 |
| 58 | University of Georgia | US | 1 | - | 0.32 |
| 59 | University of Colorado Boulder | US | 1 | - | 0.31 |
| 60 | Shanghai Jiao Tong University | CN | 1 | - | 0.30 |
| 61 | Durham University | GB | 1 | - | 0.29 |
| 62 | Ramakrishna Mission Vivekananda Educational and Research Institute | IN | 1 | - | 0.29 |
| 63 | University of Missouri | US | 1 | - | 0.28 |
| 64 | Tel Aviv University | IL | 2 | - | 0.28 |
| 65 | Graz University of Technology | AT | 1 | - | 0.27 |
| 66 | University of Lyon | FR | 1 | - | 0.26 |
| 67 | University of Wrocław | PL | 1 | - | 0.26 |
| 68 | Universität Ulm | DE | 1 | - | 0.26 |
| 69 | Beijing Information Science and Technology University | CN | 1 | - | 0.25 |
| 70 | China University of Mining and Technology (Beijing) | CN | 1 | - | 0.25 |
| 71 | State Key Laboratory of Cryptology | CN | 1 | - | 0.24 |
| 72 | Steklov Mathematical Institute | RU | 1 | - | 0.24 |
| 73 | Andhra University | IN | 1 | - | 0.24 |
| 74 | Butler University | US | 1 | - | 0.23 |
| 75 | ETH Zurich | CH | 1 | - | 0.22 |
| 76 | University of Minnesota - Twin Cities | US | 0 | 0.21 | 0.00 |
| 77 | Emory University | US | 0 | 0.07 | 0.13 |
| 78 | Pomona College | US | 1 | - | 0.20 |
| 79 | Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics | IT | 1 | - | 0.20 |
| 80 | Institute of Technology | US | 0 | 0.08 | 0.12 |
| 81 | University of Kentucky | US | 1 | - | 0.18 |
| 82 | Sogang University | KR | 1 | - | 0.18 |
| 83 | Boğaziçi University | TR | 1 | - | 0.17 |
| 84 | Central Michigan University | US | 1 | - | 0.17 |
| 85 | Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf | DE | 1 | - | 0.16 |
| 86 | Towson University | US | 1 | - | 0.16 |
| 87 | Allscripts (United States) | US | 1 | - | 0.16 |
| 88 | University of South Carolina | US | 0 | 0.12 | 0.04 |
| 89 | University of Zanjan | IR | 1 | - | 0.15 |
| 90 | Brigham Young University | US | 1 | - | 0.14 |
| 91 | University of Wisconsin-Madison | US | 0 | 0.04 | 0.10 |
| 92 | University of Canberra | AU | 1 | - | 0.13 |
| 93 | Tufts University | US | 1 | - | 0.13 |
| 94 | Victoria University of Wellington | NZ | 1 | - | 0.12 |
| 95 | Rikkyo University | JP | 1 | - | 0.12 |
| 96 | Brown University | US | 1 | - | 0.10 |
| 97 | Hellenic Military Academy | GR | 1 | - | 0.09 |
| 98 | University of Waikato | NZ | 1 | - | 0.08 |
| 99 | Sofia University "St. Kliment Ohridski" | BG | 1 | - | 0.08 |
| 100 | Indian Institute of Technology Bombay | IN | 1 | - | 0.07 |
| 101 | University, New Brunswick | CA | 0 | 0.03 | 0.01 |
| 102 | Chulalongkorn University | TH | 1 | - | 0.04 |
| 103 | University of Florida | US | 1 | - | 0.01 |
| 104 | Universidade Tecnologica Federal do Parana | BR | 1 | - | - |