A review of Prime Obsession: Bernhard Riemann and the Greatest Unsolved Problem in Mathematics, by John Derbyshire. With the proof of Fermat’s Last Theorem in 1994, Derbyshire says, “the Riemann ...
Imagine a number made up of a vast string of ones: 1111111…111. Specifically, 136,279,841 ones in a row. If we stacked up that many sheets of paper, the resulting tower would stretch into the ...
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James Maynard: uncovering the secrets of prime numbers
Prime numbers are the building blocks of mathematics, and yet their distribution is a mystery that has stumped mathematicians for centuries ...
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