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#190 – Jordan Ellenberg: Mathematics of High-Dimensional Shapes and Geometries

Lex Fridman Podcast

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The Beauty of Binding Gaps

All this talk of primes got me hungry for primes. Can you tell me about prime numbers? What are twin primes? What are prime gaps? What are bounding gaps in primes? And what if anything or what exactly is beautiful about them? Yeah. So, you know, prime numbers are one of the things that number theorists study the most and have for millennia. They are numbers which can't be factored. But don't you agree there's like something trivial about it? It's something you could do to any number. I'm sorry, you just sent me off on a tangent, just imagining like, Eretish out of Hendricks concert,. Like trying

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