Adam Spencer: Why I fell in love with monster prime numbers
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B4xOFsygwr4
Interesting, Publisher, TEDEd, Video, YouTube
They're millions of digits long, and it takes an army of mathematicians and machines to hunt them down -- what's not to love about monster primes? Adam Spencer, comedian and lifelong math geek, shares his passion for these odd numbers, and for the mysterious magic of math.
6 September 2013 Edit: 25 February 2014
- Topics:
- Number, Factors, Prime Numbers, Special Numbers
- Content Type:
- Interesting, Publisher, TEDEd, Video, YouTube
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