Tuesday, March 20, 2018

the "nobel" prize in mathematics goes to...

(there's no Nobel for math, but the Abel Prize is kind of a Nobel). in any case, the winner is  Professor Robert Langlands, from Princeton, (I would've given anything to be his student). Read this Langland's interview.

also, we have the biggest prime so far: 274,207,281 − 1

a propos of primes (the bread and butter of number theory), three students of my 2016 honors class approached me with this question: are there infinite more prime numbers than composite numbers?

Find my sketched proof here.

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