Hacker News with Generative AI: Number Theory

The Postage Stamp Problem (johndcook.com)
I recently stumbled upon the Postage Stamp Problem. Given two relatively prime positive numbers a and b, show that any sufficiently large number N, there exists positive integers x and y such that

Mathematics, Number Theory, Algorithms

6 points by azhenley 11 days ago | 0 comments

A Man Who Found the Biggest Prime [video] (youtube.com)

Mathematics, Prime Numbers, Number Theory, Videos

4 points by selectnull 30 days ago | 0 comments

Vampire Number (wolfram.com)
A number with an even number of digits formed by multiplying a pair of -digit numbers (where the digits are taken from the original number in any order) and together. Pairs of trailing zeros are not allowed. If is a vampire number, then and are called its "fangs."

Mathematics, Number Theory

65 points by dustfinger 30 days ago | 13 comments

New largest prime number found See all 41,024,320 digits [video] (youtube.com)

Mathematics, Prime Numbers, Number Theory, Science, Video

10 points by Alifatisk 31 days ago | 7 comments

Goldbach's Conjecture (wikipedia.org)
Goldbach's conjecture is one of the oldest and best-known unsolved problems in number theory and all of mathematics.

Mathematics, Number Theory, Unsolved Problems

6 points by mkaic 37 days ago | 0 comments

Big advance on simple-sounding math problem was a century in the making (quantamagazine.org)
A new proof about prime numbers illuminates the subtle relationship between addition and multiplication — and raises hopes for progress on the famous abc conjecture.

Mathematics, Number Theory, Prime Numbers, Conjectures

129 points by isaacfrond 37 days ago | 40 comments

Terence Tao on O1 (mathstodon.xyz)

Mathematics, Terence Tao, Number Theory

664 points by dselsam 68 days ago | 483 comments

666 = sum(range(1,37)) and other sequences (oeis.org)
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Mathematics, Number Theory, Sequences

12 points by wslh 78 days ago | 3 comments

Breakthrough a step toward revealing hidden structure of prime numbers (science.org)

Mathematics, Number Theory, Prime Numbers

400 points by igitur 112 days ago | 147 comments

What Is the Riemann Hypothesis and Why Do People Want to Solve It (iflscience.com)