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Tuesday, June 3, 2014

Maths and Stats by Email | Is one a prime? Celtic knots

Maths and Stats by Email | Is one a prime? Celtic knots: "Throughout history there have been many ways of writing ‘7’, but only one idea of seven. There have been many ways of writing addition, but one plus one has always been two. However, some mathematical ideas have changed meaning over the years. And recently, two American mathematicians decided to chart the history of a particularly tricky mathematical question: is one a prime number?"



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