Mathematicians Come Up with ‘Mind-Blowing’ Method for Defining Prime Numbers
www.scientificamerican.com
Using a notion called integer partitions, mathematicians have discovered a new way to detect prime numbers while also connecting two areas of math in an unexpected way
  • SkabySkalywag@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    4 days ago

    Very, very cool. Is it wrong that I feel a small sense of victory for the imaginative power of of this research team, given the constant AI and quantum computing take over that tech pushes?

  • sicarius@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    5 days ago

    I references a PNAS paper, but doesn’t explain what that is.
    Prime Numbers Are Super? And how is anyone reading that as anything but P-NAS?

    • swim@slrpnk.netEnglish
      8·
      5 days ago

      The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, commonly known as PNAS, is a peer-reviewed scientific journal and the official publication of the National Academy of Science. PNAS is one of the world’s most-cited and comprehensive multidisciplinary scientific journals, publishing more than 3,500 research papers annually.