“An anonymous sponsor has put up the cash via an organization called the Electronic Frontier Foundation as a bounty on prime numbers:… — Matt Parker Copy Share Image
“In the chapter on prime numbers, I mentioned Bernhard Riemann's 1859 paper 'On the Number of Primes Less than a Given Magnitude'.… — Matt Parker Copy Share Image
“For example, to a mathematician, the number 28 is really 2×2×7, which is known as the prime decomposition of 28. Prime numbers… — Matt Parker Copy Share Image
“Along with working on the Basel problem, Euler realized that adding an infinite sequence of reciprocal powers for all whole numbers will give you… — Matt Parker Copy Share Image
“I was believing your kind were all dead!' Warvitch bellowed at the minotaur, over the sithkall's choking death growls. 'It will be a great… — Matt Parker Copy Share Image
“Despite their ubiquity on the number line, transcendentals are surprisingly hard to pin down. It took until 1873 to prove that e was transcendental,… — Matt Parker Copy Share Image
“The proof in 1882 that pi is a transcendental number put a 2,000 year old problem to rest: for any given circle, can you… — Matt Parker Copy Share Image
“The compact disc may now be outdated technology, but a lot of music albums are still released on CD. A standard 700-megabyte CD is… — Matt Parker Copy Share Image
“The zeta function is the sum of an infinite sequence of inverse powers.” — Matt Parker Copy Share Image
“At a very rough estimate, the domino computer we built took six hours to set up and run, which means it could do four… — Matt Parker Copy Share Image
“In our current number system, if you multiply 111,111,111 by itself, you get the rather pleasing 12,345,678,987,654,321 (all the digits count up from 1… — Matt Parker Copy Share Image
“Much as it took Lucas to revolutionize the search for Mersennes primes and Lord Kelvin to introduce new ways to look for space-filling-shapes, I… — Matt Parker Copy Share Image
“For DNA to reproduce, it needs to unzip itself down the middle, and the topology of the dna chain dictates which knots are formed… — Matt Parker Copy Share Image
“To this day, the Clay Mathematics Institute's bounty of $1 million for anyone who can prove that all the non-trivial zeroes of the zeta… — Matt Parker Copy Share Image
“The Riemann Hypothesis states that all the non-trivial zeroes of the zeta function are on this line. If we can prove the Riemann Hypothesis… — Matt Parker Copy Share Image
“I find this whole area of packing problems hugely exciting. Humans know very little about the mathematics of packing objects into spaces. It seems… — Matt Parker Copy Share Image
“For our 2D square, this diagonal length is sqrt 2 = 1.414; …The diagonal from the centre of each padding sphere to the centre… — Matt Parker Copy Share Image
