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April 24, 2004
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Progressive Primes In one step toward elucidating certain primal mysteries, two mathematicians have now apparently proved that the population of primes contains an infinite collection of arithmetic progressions.   |
Science News
August 28, 2004
Ivars Peterson |
More Progressive Primes In July, Markus Frind, Paul Jobling, and Paul Underwood announced that they had discovered the first sequence consisting of 23 prime numbers in arithmetic progression. This surpasses the previous record of 22 primes in arithmetic progression, set in 1993. |
Science News
March 1, 2008
Julie J. Rehmeyer |
Math Trek: A Mathematical Tragedy Sophie Germain had a bold program to prove Fermat's Last Theorem. |
Science News
March 30, 2002
Ivars Peterson |
Rainbow Randomness The branch of pure mathematics known as Ramsey theory concerns the existence of highly regular patterns in sufficiently large sets of randomly selected objects. Patterns can arise out of randomness in a variety of ways... |
Science News
April 12, 2003
Ivars Peterson |
Constructing Domino Portraits One rendition of a famous portrait was constructed entirely from 48 complete sets of double-nine dominoes. The work of mathematician Robert Bosch of Oberlin College, this remarkable creation represents the successful application of a novel algorithm for approximating target images as arrays of dominoes. |
