Dr James Grime on the epic Skewes' Number. Lynda free trial (worth a look): http://www.lynda.com/numberphile More links & stuff in full description below ↓↓↓ Prime numbers: http://bit.ly/pri...
========== We've been so lucky on Numberphileof having Ron Graham talking about Graham's number.It was amazing that we could do that.And Graham's number was a famous number,that was the largest number, at that time, it was the largest number that have ever been usedin a proper mathematical proof.And then we had got Ron Graham to talk about it. It's fantastic"12 is not enough, it turns out,and this other, slightly bigger number."But before Ron Graham, the number, the largest number that had been used in a proper mathematical proofwas a different number called "Skews" number, or "Skewes" number?It's a word that I've only ever seen written down, so I'm not quiet sure.B...
