Tag Archives: twitter

Divisors near sqrt(n)

Posted on June 8, 2021 by Persiflage

Analytic Number Theory Alert! An even more idle question than normal (that’s because it comes from twitter). Alex Kontorovich noted with pleasure the following pictorial representation of the integers from a Veritasium youtube video, where prime numbers are represented by … Continue reading →

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The Ramanujan Machine is all hype

Posted on July 17, 2019 by Persiflage

Edit (17/02/21) I changed the title of this post which was unnecessarily incendiary. There’s a lot that I like about how mathematics operates as a social discipline. We have a great respect for the history of the subject, which in … Continue reading →

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En Passant V

Posted on July 7, 2019 by Persiflage

(warning: today’s persiflage comes with possible extra snark due to sleep deprivation) The Ramanujan Machine: I learnt from John Baez on twitter about The Ramanujan Machine, a project designed to “help reveal [the] underlying structure” of the “fundamental constants” of … Continue reading →

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