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You might be a Mathematician if:

  • You are fascinated by the equation .

  • You know by heart the first fifty digits of pi.

  • You have tried to prove Fermat's Last Theorem.

  • You know ten ways to prove Pythagoras' Theorem.

  • Your telephone number is the sum of two prime numbers.

  • You are sure that differential equations are a very useful tool.

  • You comment to your wife that her straight hair is nice and parallel.

  • When you say to a car dealer "I'll take the red car or the blue one", you must add "but not both of them."

 

 

Maths in the News :

 

44th Mersenne Prime Found !

On 4th September 2006, Dr. Surtis Cooper and Dr. Steven Boone's team found the largest prime number known, breaking their own world record. The prime is 2 raised to the power 32582657 minus 1 and is a staggering 9,808,358 digits long! The prime still falls short of the 10 million digit mark required to claim the EFF $100,000 award. So far GIMPS has found 5 mersenne primes. Join the search at www.mersenne.org where the software is free to download. For more information on primes, see the Prime Numbers page here.

  

Wolfram Research Launch Mathematica 6.

Mathematica is a widely used computer algebra system and also a powerful programming language emulating multiple paradigms on top of term rewriting. According to Wolfram the new version is a major release and key elements in computations and visualizations have been substantially improved. To find out more about the new features in Mathematica 6, visit the website here.

 

         
 

Record Twin Primes Discovered.

On 15th January 2007, The Twin Prime Search (TPS) project, working with PrimeGrid, found the largest known twin primes:

2003663613*2^195000-1 and 2003663613*2^195000+1

The two primes are both 58,711 digits long and surpass the previous record of 51,780 digits. For more information on primes, see the Prime Numbers page here.

  

New maths.co.nr website up and running!

After a long period of redesigning and alteration, the website is back with new content and layouts. The old (very old) website you can be accessed here although  the last update was in December 2005! The main pages should all be working fine. IAny comments can be left using the guestbook or by email to: mathsweb@aol.com.

 

   
   
   
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