Yeah - it was even written without mathematicians being the target. I was pretty happy to find it.
It's not made much big news, but there's a new largest prime in town and this has all sorts of connotations and implications. So, we mathematicians have been all aflutter and giddy. I belong to a few private mailing lists and forums and this has been something we've been talking about for something like two weeks now - since the confirmation. It's pretty big news in a field that doesn't have a lot of big news.
[–] 11616463? 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
Super cool article :)
[–] TheBuddha [S] 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
Yeah - it was even written without mathematicians being the target. I was pretty happy to find it.
It's not made much big news, but there's a new largest prime in town and this has all sorts of connotations and implications. So, we mathematicians have been all aflutter and giddy. I belong to a few private mailing lists and forums and this has been something we've been talking about for something like two weeks now - since the confirmation. It's pretty big news in a field that doesn't have a lot of big news.
Glad you liked it.