41 and more Ulam's Spiral - Numberphile
More on prime numbers and Ulam's Spiral - this time focusing on 41 and Arthur C. Clarke. More links & stuff in full description below ↓↓↓ This video features ...
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JAMES CLEWETT: I want to talk about number 41. 41 is a number which crops up in "Garden of Rama." Which, when I was a teenage boy, was just about my favorite book. I loved Arthur C Clarke's stuff. He really enjoyed educating in a really subtle way. And so in this book-- page 53, I checked-- rather randomly, we suddenly find that we're doing some sort of quadratic mathematics. So as a teenage boy, I didn't understand this at all. I looked at it. I thought, yeah, that's nice. And part of me wished I could do that. But then I moved on. So what I want to do today is actually take you through this and explain to you what Arthur C Clarke was talking about, and why it is kind of cute. It's the heroine's 41st birthday. And her husband is a mathemat...
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JAMES CLEWETT: I want to talk about number 41. 41 is a number which crops up in "Garden of Rama." Which, when I was a teenage boy, was just about my favorite book. I loved Arthur C Clarke's stuff. He really enjoyed educating in a really subtle way. And so in this book-- page 53, I checked-- rather randomly, we suddenly find that we're doing some sort of quadratic mathematics. So as a teenage boy, I didn't understand this at all. I looked at it. I thought, yeah, that's nice. And part of me wished I could do that. But then I moved on. So what I want to do today is actually take you through this and explain to you what Arthur C Clarke was talking about, and why it is kind of cute. It's the heroine's 41st birthday. And her husband is a mathemat...
