
Laura Deming on living forever, contrarian thinking, homeschooling, beauty of mathematics and funding longevity research
The Aarthi and Sriram Show
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What's the Coolest Thing About Primes?
"I didn't mus nderstand was, like, why people so upsess the primes?" he says. "The one thing which made me really fall in love with primes as a kid was the book and then the movie contact a." He asks: Why does it matter how many steps it takes to get from 100 to 28? The only number we know of that has those properties is 20 eighth.
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