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David Wells

Prime Numbers

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A fascinating journey into the mind-bending world of prime numbersCicadas of the genus Magicicada appear once every 7, 13, or 17 years. Is it just a coincidence that these are all prime numbers? How do twin primes differ from cousin primes, and what on earth (or in the mind of a mathematician) could be sexy about prime numbers? What did Albert Wilansky find so fascinating about his brother-in-law's phone number?Mathematicians have been asking questions about prime numbers for more than twenty-five centuries, and every answer seems to generate a new rash of questions. In Prime Numbers: The Most Mysterious Figures in Math, you'll meet the world's most gifted mathematicians, from Pythagoras and Euclid to Fermat, Gauss, and Erd?o?s, and you'll discover a host of unique insights and inventive conjectures that have both enlarged our understanding and deepened the mystique of prime numbers. This comprehensive, A-to-Z guide covers everything you ever wanted to know--and much more that you never suspected--about prime numbers, including:* The unproven Riemann hypothesis and the power of the zeta function* The “Primes is in P” algorithm* The sieve of Eratosthenes of Cyrene* Fermat and Fibonacci numbers* The Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search* And much, much more
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489 printed pages
Original publication
2011
Publication year
2011
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  • Filiberto Investigadorhas quoted5 years ago
    Mathematicians use the ≡ sign instead of =, the equal sign, to indicate that they are using modular arithmetic.
  • Filiberto Investigadorhas quoted5 years ago
    divisor function d(n), which is the number of divisors of n
  • Filiberto Investigadorhas quoted5 years ago
    The expression 4 | 12 means that 4 divides 12 exactly.

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