Thursday, July 20, 2017

Prime Stuff...


Always elusive prime numbers...

1) Super piece from Kevin Hartnett in Quanta today about the work of Kaisa Matomäki on prime factors and related ideas:
https://www.quantamagazine.org/kaisa-matomaki-dreams-of-primes-20170720/

2) ...and timely, as it follows up on a new Numberphile video yesterday with James Maynard on prime gaps:



3)  And earlier in week Evelyn Lamb pointed out this fun li'l excursion into prime numbers I'd missed from a few weeks back:
http://mathmisery.com/wp/2017/06/25/summer-excursion-1-prime-numbers/

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