... --somewhat sadly, I've read very little by either Newton or Maxwell. Recommend anything? Or perhaps it is best to avoid reading them directly since...
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djbroadhurst
May 10, 2013 11:49 pm
... I have studied Motte's translation of the Principia and was struck by this: http://www.isaac-newton.org/scholium.htm ... Hitherto we have explain'd the...
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Jack Brennen
jbrennen
May 11, 2013 1:22 am
David, wonder if you would agree that no physicist has a wider gap between his contribution (huge) and his fame (minor) as Oliver Heaviside... Heaviside should...
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djbroadhurst
May 11, 2013 8:27 am
... Agreed. My father was an electrical engineer and thought that the British have a class snobbery against practical thinkers. In France, on the other hand,...
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j_chrtn
May 11, 2013 11:35 pm
... Not to minimize the work of such a genius that was Einstein what about Lorentz and Poincaré's contributions to special relativity? And as a mathematician,...
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djbroadhurst
May 12, 2013 1:54 am
... Agreed. But Einstein's claim in general relativity far outweighs Poincaré's in special relativity. David Hilbert is another example of "proxime accessit"....
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WarrenS
warren_d_smi...
May 13, 2013 8:24 pm
DJB's recommended "amazing" paper J Clerk Maxwell: A Dynamical Theory of the Electromagnetic Field. Maxwell, J Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society...
Wow! Allegedly Yitang Zhang proved there are infinitely many pairs of primes that are less than 70 million units apart: ...
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djbroadhurst
May 14, 2013 6:10 pm
... That was my reaction. ... This is indeed cleaning up on previous breakthroughs, but very welcome, nonetheless. ... Happily, David...
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Tim R
tsr21
May 16, 2013 4:46 am
The Unsolved Problems web site at http://unsolvedproblems.org/ has recently been updated. There are prizes of US$500 for many of the problems listed. Tim...
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woodhodgson@...
woodhodgson...
May 16, 2013 10:04 am
... values, ... work out the number of permutations for n=5,7,11,13,17,19,23 and add them up, and divide by 1296. ... It seems to me there is a very short...
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woodhodgson@...
woodhodgson...
May 16, 2013 10:11 am
... I have worded part of that clumsily and possibly misleadingly: it should read " ... the set of 6^N results (modulo 6) obtained by adding N numbers...
Hi, Jens (et al.): I am not sure why I am running a sequence, so I suspect I should not be in PARI. The terms are reasonably close and should be...
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Jens Kruse Andersen
jkand71
May 18, 2013 1:46 am
... (827942544791 +/- n)*10^16+1 is prime for n = 1, 2, 4, 5 827942544791 is the first solution. It did come later than expected. This seems like a...
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James Merickel
moralforce120
May 19, 2013 2:14 am
At a better time, this would be or would have been a good (relative) time to advance a statistical partial definition of how much of a coincidence this is...
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James Merickel
moralforce120
May 19, 2013 4:29 pm
I was taking the author's word for the size of term 16 (Am reading about and feeling like the opposite of The Who's Tommy right now, since terms 1-15 were my...
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James Merickel
moralforce120
May 19, 2013 7:14 pm
Jens Kruse Andersen produced the 16th term of a sequence I requested and some sequence material to the side (of that term) as well as an advance of the 'Prime...
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John
mistermac39
May 19, 2013 10:54 pm
... In this little interesting problem, David's "dumb" answer was the dumbness of ordinary arithmetic compared with the elegance of modular arithmetic and...
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Paul Leyland
paul@...
May 20, 2013 9:14 am
... Warning: possible heresy ahead. "Aether" as the medium of transmission of electromagnetic waves has rather gone out of fashion, and for good reasons, not...
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Adriano Palma
palmaaaaaa
May 20, 2013 10:17 am
________________________________ From: primenumbers@yahoogroups.com [primenumbers@yahoogroups.com] on behalf of j_chrtn [j_chrtn@...] Sent: 12 May 2013...
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djbroadhurst
May 20, 2013 12:27 pm
... Phil's guess about the primality of 91 was bettered by Grothendieck's guess about the primality of 57: ...
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mikeoakes2
May 20, 2013 2:27 pm
... Thank you, David, for directing us to that intriguing article about a very strange man. ... In a brief memoir about Grothendieck, Ladegaillerie wrote: "I...
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djbroadhurst
May 20, 2013 8:30 pm
... http://www.ams.org/notices/200808/tx080800930p.pdf is a big file [11 MB] by the author of what will become a 3-volume biography of Grothendieck. David...
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j_chrtn
May 21, 2013 8:44 am
... Lorsque j'étais en classes préparatoires aux grandes écoles (ça date un peu maintenant), j'avais un bouquin de corrigés d'épreuves de Centrale,...
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yasep16
May 21, 2013 12:05 pm
ckickable, non-wrapped link : http://www.1000-annonces.com/agrege-et-kholleur-de-physique-en-classes-prepas-IMGH1342442936_alien.jpg somehow, the one on the...
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thamer mm
thamermm15
May 21, 2013 12:16 pm
Hi . I am a Jordanian researcher in the number theory field . I discover the fastest theory about finding prime numbers . Thamer M. Masarweh [Non-text...
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Mohsen Afshin
mafshin89
May 21, 2013 12:29 pm
Thamer, and you published your work somewhere or it's a mystery yet? ... -- "Mathematics is the queen of the sciences and number theory is the queen of ...
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djbroadhurst
2:41 am
... Greetings, Thamer. It seems that you and your brother Ragheb developed a sieve when at school ...
