A conversation with Lola Thompson
When you spend all day sitting in your office thinking about difficult abstract problems, it’s wonderful to take a break and do something intensely physical, like aerial acrobatics.
Substrate
Saad Quader’s post on the Euler’s product form of the Riemann Zeta Function
Riemann zeta function is a rather simple-looking function. For any number $latex s$, the zeta function $latex \zeta(s)$ is the sum of the reciprocals of all natural numbers raised to the $latex s^\…
Mertens conjecture
Numberphile episode on it, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uvMGZb0Suyc.
Primify - Encoding images as a single prime
I tried to come up with a gift idea that would light a maths majors heart without being pricey. So I decided to find a prime that looked like the face of the person that I had to gift.
Why Isn’t 1 a Prime Number?
The 1’s add no information. And so it’s more convenient to exclude 1 from the list of prime numbers. That’s what allows us to say that each number has a unique prime factorization.
Widest Roman Prime
One of my favorite joke Twitter accounts is @wacnt. It tweets things Wolfram|Alpha can’t answer. I’ve asked Facebook M to figure out a few of them...