For years, a French mathematician searched for a proof that a gigantic number is prime. His method is still used 150 years ...
The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Imagine that someone gives you a list of five numbers: 1, 6, 21, 107, and—wait for it—47,176,870. Can you guess what comes next? If ...
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