Saturday, October 18, 2008

Primes

Among several of my mathematics research projects, I am, like most mathematicians, venturing in to the world of Prime Numbers.

For those not in the know, Prime Numbers are those that are divisible by only the number 1 and the number itself. For example, 17 is only (evenly) divisible by 1 and 17.

The long standing problem is a "formula" for predicting primes. There isn't one (yet).

Since Primes are the building blocks of all other natural numbers (every number is the product of prime numbers), I see them as important.
As an example, the number 15 is the product of 3 and 5, both prime.
The number 26 is the product of 13 and 2 - both prime .
and so on for all Natural numbers.