Wednesday Colloquia
The Music of the Primes
by Prof. Marcus du Sautoy (University of Oxford)
Wednesday, May 12, 2010
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(Asia/Kolkata)
at Colaba Campus ( AG-66 )
at Colaba Campus ( AG-66 )
Description |
"Why did Beckham choose the number 23 shirt? How is 17 the key to the evolutionary survival of a strange species of cicada?" Prime numbers are the atoms of arithmetic - the hydrogen and oxygen of the world of numbers. Despite their fundamental importance to mathematics, they represent one of the most tantalising enigmas in the pursuit of human knowledge. Mathematics is the science of patterns. Yet the most fundamental numbers in the subject seem to have no patterns to them at all. They seem scattered randomly through the universe of numbers. But by looking at these numbers in a new way, mathematicians have discovered what they believe is the secret to the way Nature chose the primes. |
Organised by | Nitin Chaudhari |
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