Warming Up: Integers, Sequences, and Experimental Mathematics

Mihai Caragiu ()
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Mihai Caragiu: Ohio Northern University, Department of Mathematics and Statistics

Chapter Chapter 2 in Sequential Experiments with Primes, 2017, pp 13-65 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract The oldest known record of a mathematical object is the fossilized Lebombo bone [more than 43,000 years old according to rigorous carbon dating (d’Errico et al. 1987)], displaying 29 tally marks. Just for fun: this means that the first integer ever recorded in human history happens to be a prime number! One could indeed say that the natural numbers 1, 2, 3, … have fascinated humanity from the dawn of time, thus becoming engrained in human consciousness (Greathouse; Dehaene 1999).

Date: 2017
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-56762-4_2

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