Tag Archives: primes

Divisors near sqrt(n)

Posted on June 8, 2021 by Persiflage

Analytic Number Theory Alert! An even more idle question than normal (that’s because it comes from twitter). Alex Kontorovich noted with pleasure the following pictorial representation of the integers from a Veritasium youtube video, where prime numbers are represented by … Continue reading →

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I asked… and you responded!

Posted on September 30, 2019 by Persiflage

I often ask mathematical questions on this blog that I don’t know how to answer. Sometimes my smart readers are able to answer the questions I ask. Surely they deserve some recognition for this? Here are two such occasions which … Continue reading →

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