Prime numbers
DR. JAMES GRIME: So I've got a very big number to show you today used by NatWest Bank so that you can send them your secret bank details. It starts 2 3 4 5 3 6 7 6 2 8-- [MULTIPLE CLIPS OF...
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ALEX CLARK: And what's interesting about this problem is that it was actually solved by what might be called an amateur mathematician, someone that wasn't officially a mathematician....
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JAMES GRIME: One of the reasons we're fascinated by primes is that they are quite weird in the way they behave. On one hand, they kind of feel random. They are turning up all over the place....
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JAMES GRIME: Today, Brady, we're going to look at Smith numbers. And Smith numbers were born in an unusual place. They were born in a telephone directory when somebody was looking up the phone...
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JAMES GRIME: It's maths news. We all love maths news, right? So recently the Abel Prize was announced. The Abel Prize is like the Nobel Prize for mathematics. So the winner of this...
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