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Amateur Mathematician Discovers the Largest Known Prime Number, With More Than 41 Million Digits
In the 17th century, French monk and mathematician Marin Mersenne developed a method to find prime numbers: values that are ...
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Mathematician Sir Michael Atiyah dies aged 89
Sir Michael was best known for his co-development of a branch of mathematics called topological K-theory and the Atiyah-Singer index theorem. His research also involved deep insights relating to ...
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Vegetarians used to be called Pythagoreans because the famous mathematician loathed by high schoolers everywhere refused to eat meat
For example, vegetarians used to be referred to as Pythagoreans after the ancient Greek mathematician ... they were called Pythagoreans. After Pythagoras died in 495 BC, the movement he ascribed ...