The Slightly Bungled Mersenne Prime Origin Story - Numberphile

2025-01-26

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Brady Haran is at the Royal Society looking at the book which resulted in the name "Mersenne Primes".

Mersenne Prime videos on Numberphile: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLt5AfwLFPxWKsTwVXpLscZdfiiqAkkGCA

The Royal Society library: https://royalsociety.org/about-us/what-we-do/collections/visitors/

Translation and explanation of the key section from Cogitata Physico-Mathematica - https://t5k.org/mersenne/LukeMirror/lit/lit_069s.htm

Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search - https://www.mersenne.org

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