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Warming Up: Integers, Sequences, and Experimental Mathematics

In: Sequential Experiments with Primes

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  • Mihai Caragiu

    (Ohio Northern University, Department of Mathematics and Statistics)

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The oldest known record of a mathematical object is the fossilized Lebombo bone [more than 43,000 years old according to rigorous carbon dating (d’Errico et al. 1987)], displaying 29 tally marks. Just for fun: this means that the first integer ever recorded in human history happens to be a prime number! One could indeed say that the natural numbers 1, 2, 3, … have fascinated humanity from the dawn of time, thus becoming engrained in human consciousness (Greathouse; Dehaene 1999).

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  • Mihai Caragiu, 2017. "Warming Up: Integers, Sequences, and Experimental Mathematics," Springer Books, in: Sequential Experiments with Primes, chapter 0, pages 13-65, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:sprchp:978-3-319-56762-4_2
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-56762-4_2
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