Institutions
Where the Goldbach 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; 81 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 | Shandong University | CN | 3 | 0.94 | 0.81 |
| 2 | University of London | GB | 0 | 1.00 | 0.73 |
| 3 | Princeton University | US | 1 | 0.91 | 0.38 |
| 4 | University of Oxford | GB | 3 | 0.29 | 1.00 |
| 5 | Eötvös Loránd University | HU | 1 | 0.49 | 0.79 |
| 6 | University of Cambridge | GB | 1 | 0.39 | 0.74 |
| 7 | Stanford University | US | 1 | 0.61 | 0.52 |
| 8 | University of Bristol | GB | 1 | 0.41 | 0.58 |
| 9 | Chinese Academy of Sciences | CN | 0 | 0.32 | 0.63 |
| 10 | University of California, Berkeley | US | 0 | 0.55 | 0.34 |
| 11 | University of Turku | FI | 1 | 0.57 | 0.32 |
| 12 | Peking University | CN | 0 | 0.27 | 0.62 |
| 13 | Royal Holloway University of London | GB | 1 | - | 0.86 |
| 14 | Hungarian Academy of Sciences | HU | 0 | 0.06 | 0.79 |
| 15 | Lomonosov Moscow State University | RU | 1 | 0.48 | 0.33 |
| 16 | Alfréd Rényi Institute of Mathematics | HU | 2 | - | 0.80 |
| 17 | McGill University | CA | 0 | 0.14 | 0.66 |
| 18 | University of Göttingen | DE | 1 | 0.33 | 0.43 |
| 19 | University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign | US | 2 | 0.26 | 0.49 |
| 20 | University of Genoa | IT | 0 | 0.59 | 0.13 |
| 21 | Sorbonne Université | FR | 0 | 0.18 | 0.52 |
| 22 | Université de Lille | FR | 1 | 0.25 | 0.44 |
| 23 | China University of Mining and Technology (Beijing) | CN | 1 | - | 0.66 |
| 24 | Beijing Information Science and Technology University | CN | 1 | - | 0.66 |
| 25 | Université du Québec à Montréal | CA | 1 | - | 0.66 |
| 26 | Université de Montréal | CA | 2 | - | 0.66 |
| 27 | Concordia University | CA | 1 | - | 0.65 |
| 28 | Moscow State Pedagogical Institute | RU | 0 | 0.31 | 0.30 |
| 29 | Université Paris Cité | FR | 1 | 0.09 | 0.51 |
| 30 | Comenius University Bratislava | SK | 1 | - | 0.59 |
| 31 | Purdue University West Lafayette | US | 1 | 0.06 | 0.51 |
| 32 | University of New South Wales | AU | 0 | 0.22 | 0.33 |
| 33 | Nanjing University | CN | 1 | 0.13 | 0.41 |
| 34 | Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique | FR | 2 | - | 0.52 |
| 35 | University of Toronto | CA | 1 | 0.27 | 0.25 |
| 36 | San Jose State University | US | 2 | - | 0.51 |
| 37 | Utrecht University | NL | 0 | 0.25 | 0.25 |
| 38 | University of Michigan | US | 2 | 0.07 | 0.42 |
| 39 | University of California, Los Angeles | US | 1 | - | 0.48 |
| 40 | Steklov Institute of Mathematics | RU | 1 | 0.23 | 0.25 |
| 41 | RAND Corporation | US | 1 | - | 0.46 |
| 42 | University of Cologne | DE | 1 | - | 0.46 |
| 43 | Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf | DE | 1 | - | 0.46 |
| 44 | Sofia University "St. Kliment Ohridski" | BG | 2 | - | 0.44 |
| 45 | Institute of Science and Technology Austria | AT | 1 | - | 0.43 |
| 46 | University of Padua | IT | 1 | - | 0.42 |
| 47 | Nanjing Normal University | CN | 1 | - | 0.41 |
| 48 | University of Parma | IT | 1 | - | 0.40 |
| 49 | University of Waterloo | CA | 1 | 0.12 | 0.27 |
| 50 | Freie Universität Berlin | DE | 0 | 0.31 | 0.07 |
| 51 | University of Freiburg | DE | 1 | 0.20 | 0.19 |
| 52 | Durham University | GB | 1 | - | 0.38 |
| 53 | Heidelberg University | DE | 0 | 0.20 | 0.16 |
| 54 | Henan Academy of Sciences | CN | 1 | - | 0.36 |
| 55 | Columbia University | US | 0 | 0.16 | 0.20 |
| 56 | Philipps-Universität Marburg | DE | 0 | 0.10 | 0.25 |
| 57 | University of Kentucky | US | 1 | - | 0.35 |
| 58 | Graz University of Technology | AT | 1 | - | 0.35 |
| 59 | Pomona College | US | 1 | - | 0.35 |
| 60 | Towson University | US | 1 | - | 0.34 |
| 61 | Rutgers University | US | 1 | 0.01 | 0.33 |
| 62 | Universität Konstanz | DE | 0 | 0.18 | 0.15 |
| 63 | Ramakrishna Mission Vivekananda Educational and Research Institute | IN | 1 | - | 0.33 |
| 64 | UNSW Sydney | AU | 1 | - | 0.33 |
| 65 | Technische Universität Darmstadt | DE | 0 | 0.15 | 0.17 |
| 66 | Queen's University at Kingston | CA | 0 | 0.24 | 0.08 |
| 67 | Rikkyo University | JP | 1 | - | 0.31 |
| 68 | Saitama University | JP | 1 | - | 0.31 |
| 69 | Kyushu University | JP | 1 | - | 0.30 |
| 70 | University of Missouri | US | 1 | - | 0.30 |
| 71 | Southwest University | CN | 1 | - | 0.29 |
| 72 | University of Ferrara | IT | 1 | - | 0.29 |
| 73 | West Virginia University | US | 0 | 0.20 | 0.07 |
| 74 | Edinburgh Napier University | GB | 1 | - | 0.27 |
| 75 | Universität Ulm | DE | 1 | - | 0.27 |
| 76 | Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica | NL | 1 | - | 0.26 |
| 77 | University of South Carolina | US | 0 | 0.26 | 0.00 |
| 78 | University of Hong Kong | HK | 2 | - | 0.26 |
| 79 | KTH Royal Institute of Technology | SE | 1 | - | 0.26 |
| 80 | Baltazar Zaprešić University of Applied Sciences | HR | 1 | - | 0.25 |
| 81 | ETH Zurich | CH | 1 | 0.11 | 0.13 |
| 82 | Tel Aviv University | IL | 0 | 0.16 | 0.08 |
| 83 | Pennsylvania State University | US | 0 | 0.15 | 0.09 |
| 84 | University of Rostock | DE | 1 | - | 0.23 |
| 85 | Victoria University of Wellington | NZ | 1 | - | 0.23 |
| 86 | Shanghai Jiao Tong University | CN | 1 | - | 0.23 |
| 87 | Universität Zürich | CH | 0 | 0.09 | 0.13 |
| 88 | Indiana University Bloomington | US | 1 | - | 0.22 |
| 89 | University of California, Davis | US | 1 | - | 0.22 |
| 90 | University of Virginia | US | 1 | - | 0.20 |
| 91 | University of Minnesota - Twin Cities | US | 0 | 0.19 | 0.00 |
| 92 | Sogang University | KR | 1 | - | 0.18 |
| 93 | Technion - Israel Institute of Technology | IL | 1 | - | 0.17 |
| 94 | Chalmers University of Technology | SE | 1 | - | 0.15 |
| 95 | South China University of Technology | CN | 1 | - | 0.15 |
| 96 | University of Rochester | US | 0 | 0.06 | 0.08 |
| 97 | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | US | 1 | - | 0.13 |
| 98 | University of British Columbia | CA | 1 | 0.08 | 0.05 |
| 99 | Hellenic Military Academy | GR | 1 | - | 0.13 |
| 100 | University of Wrocław | PL | 1 | - | 0.12 |
| 101 | Universiteit van Amsterdam | 0 | 0.12 | - | |
| 102 | Virginia Tech | US | 1 | - | 0.12 |
| 103 | Xi'an Jiaotong University | CN | 1 | 0.05 | 0.06 |
| 104 | Skidmore College | US | 1 | - | 0.11 |
| 105 | Emory University | US | 0 | 0.11 | 0.00 |
| 106 | Brigham Young University | US | 1 | - | 0.11 |
| 107 | Williams College | US | 1 | - | 0.11 |
| 108 | Université Grenoble Alpes | FR | 0 | 0.07 | 0.03 |
| 109 | Université Laval | CA | 1 | - | 0.10 |
| 110 | Pennsylvania State University, Beaver | US | 1 | - | 0.10 |
| 111 | University of Wisconsin-Madison | US | 0 | 0.05 | 0.03 |
| 112 | Uniwersytet Warszawski | 0 | 0.07 | - | |
| 113 | University of Wisconsin-Whitewater | US | 1 | - | 0.06 |
| 114 | Château Gombert | FR | 1 | - | 0.05 |
| 115 | Université de Bordeaux | FR | 0 | 0.04 | 0.00 |
| 116 | University of Arizona | US | 0 | 0.03 | 0.00 |
| 117 | University of Massachusetts Amherst | 0 | 0.02 | - | |
| 118 | Tashkent State University | UZ | 1 | - | 0.02 |
| 119 | Stellenbosch University | ZA | 1 | - | 0.01 |
| 120 | University of Alaska, Fairbanks | US | 0 | 0.01 | 0.00 |
| 121 | Lehman College, CUNY | US | 1 | - | - |