A story of baseball, number theory, and serendipity. More links & stuff in full description below ↓↓↓ Featuring Carl Pomerance from the Department of Mathematics at Dartmouth College....
========== Well, I'd like to talk a little bit about baseball, and in particular, I have two numbers.714and 715.Now, one reason I think many mathematiciansreally love baseball is because it's,at the base of it, when you watch it on television,it's a fairly boring game.It's slow-moving and it's filled with numbers!The sports casters always talk about batting averages.They talk about on-base percentages.They talk about records, like the most home runs someone has ever hit.In their career or in a particular year or whatever.Babe Ruth, who is one of the greatest baseball players of all time,he played for the Boston Red Sox,and then very famously, or infamously, was traded to the New York Yankees.Over his career, he hit 714 home runs.This was a g...
