Welcome to mikematics
Hello and welcome to my private math pages. My name is Mike Winkler, also known as mikematics. I am a mathematician and live on a horse farm on the German North Sea coast. My work is mostly in the areas of number theory, combinatorics, and discrete geometry, including graph theory. On this website I present some of my ideas, conjectures, and proofs on selected mathematical topics from my private research. My favorite topics are the 3x + 1 problem, regular matchstick graphs, nonperiodic tilings, and Heesch’s problem. Besides math, I love horses and cycling and play the piano and guitar.
Have fun reading and exploring this website.
Mike Winkler
Latest research and preprints
Thinned Wallis-type prime products in residue classes modulo 2^m (February 2026)
Deterministic Structures in the Stopping Time Dynamics of the 3x+1 Problem (February 2026, Update from 2017)
On the existence of 4-regular matchstick graphs (February 2026, Update from 2017)
A Quartic Identity Related to Fermat-Type Equations (February 2026, Update from 2014)
The currently two best approximations of 4-regular matchstick graphs with 62 vertices (February 2024)
Two new 4-regular matchstick graphs with 66 vertices (January/February 2024)
The currently two best approximations of 4-regular matchstick graphs with 61 vertices (June 2023)