The Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search, the premier distributed-computing prime finding initiative, has reported that $M_{32582657} = 2^{32,582,657}-1$, the 44th Mersenne prime to be discovered, is also the 44th Mersenne Prime in numerical order. It was found by Steven Boone and Curtis Cooper in 2006 (Cooper also discovered the current largest prime as reported here in February), but until…
The conclusions you can draw from this graph will SHOCK you
This is a blog post based on a Google+ post about a tweet. I can only hope that it will inspire a further flourishing of vines, instagrams and Yo!-s. I saw this graph (originally from job stats site msgooroo.com) posted by a functional programming news site: The accompanying tweet said “More reasons to choice Functional…
Logically Policed
This is a nice short documentary by student filmmaker Damiano Petrucci about mathematics and mathematicians, why they do maths and how they communicate it. It’s got a load of names you’ll recognise, including Oxford’s Ben Green and Aperiodipal Matt Parker. via Colin Wright, who’s also in it!
K sera, sera: board of the Journal of K-Theory resigns (again) and starts a new journal (again)
The rumours are true: the editors which in 2007 resigned from the journal K-Theory have now resigned from the splinter journal they helped set up, Journal of K-Theory, to start a third journal, Annals of K-Theory. What a headache!
News Round-up, 21/10/14
Here’s some quick stories from the world of maths this week.
Petition absorbs way more signatures than this product with a stupid advert ever could
An Australian sanitary pad company has hit upon a witty tagline for their product: Literally thousands of people have signed a petition to tell Libra that that’s not OK.
‘The Imitation Game’ Cryptography Competition
To celebrate the release of the upcoming Alan Turing biopic The Imitation Game (see our incisive analysis of the film’s trailer by James Grime) the guys at the University of Manchester – who have previously run the hugely successful Alan Turing Cryptography competition – have been asked to run a one-off Imitation Game Cryptography Competition. And they have.…