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Simon Singh is the author of two books about mathematics, Fermat's Last Theorem (pure maths) and The Code Book (applied maths). His latest book is Big Bang, a history of cosmology.

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A prime primerBBC

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15 September 2005

They're astonishingly powerful numbers. Simon Singh introduces the primes.  Read more : A prime primer

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A prime primer

Comment posted by zz901584

19 Mar 2012

I made a program that compiles centered figurate numbers. The sum of the centered numbers - or pronic numbers if that is the right term - contain no primes using numbers 8 and 9. I have checked... Read more : A prime primer

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Simon Singh is the author of two books about mathematics, Fermat's Last Theorem (pure maths) and The Code Book (applied maths). His latest book is Big Bang, a history of cosmology.

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