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Prime Spirals - Patterns in Primes One of the fundamental goals of pure mathematicians is gaining a deeper understanding of the distribution of prime numbers - hence why the Riemann Hypothesis is one of the great unsolved problems in number theory and has a $1 million prize for anyone who can solve it. Prime numbers... Continue Reading →
How Are Prime Numbers Distributed? Twin Primes Conjecture Thanks to a great post on the Teaching Mathematics blog about getting students to conduct an open ended investigation on consecutive numbers, I tried this with my year 10s - with some really interesting results. My favourites were these conjectures: 1) In a set of any 10... Continue Reading →