Wrong, But Useful

Wrong, But Useful: Episode 41


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This month on Wrong, But Useful, @reflectivemaths and @icecolbeveridge are joined by @evelynjlamb, who is Evelyn Lamb in real life. She writes the Roots Of Unity column for Scientific American. We discuss: How Evelyn got into maths, into writing and into France Evelyn picks the numbers of the podcast: 339,613 and 339,631, both of which are prime. Evelyn recommends @_primes_ (which are prime numbers in real life) We discuss what makes numbers nice and the gods of Tetris and prime numbers. One of Dave’s students has spotted a nice pattern to do with squaring numbers comprising only 3s, only 6s […]
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