“He is the ‘k’ in G. W. Peck, a pseudonym for a group of six mathematicians,” says Wikipedia, which goes on to say: Kleitman has coauthored at least six papers with Erdős, giving him an Erdős number of 1. He was a math advisor and extra for the film Good Will Hunting.[5] Since Minnie Driver of Good Will Hunting appeared in Sleepers with Kevin Bacon, Kleitman […]
Tag: number
“The largest prime number in the world”
Investigator Leslie Lamport writes: ” I heard this today on public radio’s Marketplace: “A discovery of a lifetime (at least for the math geeks among us): the largest prime number in the world.” “This raises the interesting question of which prime numbers are in the world, and which only occur elsewhere.” Other news outlets are […]
Fibonacci songs
The Fibonacci series of numbers (1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, …) inspired these two songs (and—who knows?—maybe a whole series of others): (Thanks to investigators Cheryl Bain and Thomas Gallucci for bringing these to our attention.)
The more-than-seven ages of man (and woman)
William Shakespeare reduced the ages of man to a mere seven, in the play “As You Like It“. In this video, actor Benedict Cumberbatch presents that argument: In contrast, the maker of the video below went for a less literarily — but more mathematically — classical approach to age, assigning a different age for each year […]