The Magic of the Primes - James Maynard and Hannah Fry

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In July 2022 Oxford Mathematician James Maynard received the Fields Medal, the highest honour for a mathematician under the age of 40, for his groundbreaking work on prime numbers.
In this Oxford Mathematics Public Lecture he explains the fascinations and frustrations of the primes before sitting down with Hannah Fry to discuss his work and his life.
The Oxford Mathematics Public Lectures are generously supported by XTX Markets.

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@Slarti 8 ай бұрын

It's interesting his experience of disregarding what others advise him. I work as a software developer and countless times when looking at a problem people have told me I am going down the wrong path and it turned out that I was on the exactly correct path.

@richardb7726 Жыл бұрын

Wow. Listening to James describe how his mind works and his obsessive nature, it was as if he was talking about me. I have never heard anyone else talk about this. Now all I have got to do is learn to add up…well…sort of!

@swarm_into_singularity Ай бұрын

good luckkkkkkkkkkk

@minyare Жыл бұрын

One of my favourite mathematician ❤

@kimsmyth1381 Жыл бұрын

And yet Ms Fry was a zelot for forcing people to get an experimental vaccine. Just another shill

@suindude8149 Жыл бұрын

So I learnt how prime and the reductioning indexing by this helps us in classification problem in real space.

@russ6768 9 ай бұрын

I really hope these two people are actually this genuine in real life. They seem rather common, relatable and friendly (and dare it be said, modest?); traits far too rare amongst intellectuals nowadays.

@diegomo1413 8 ай бұрын

Those traits are not rare at all 🤨

@russ6768 8 ай бұрын

@@diegomo1413 wow, you seem very humble, polite, and relatable 🤓🤪

@paolosimonutti7653 10 ай бұрын

13:55 There is insufficient space on the slide... (lol)

@minyare Жыл бұрын

My dream is to study mathematics at Oxford uni 🇬🇧🤲 and become mathematician ✈️✨

@mathematics5573 Жыл бұрын

Aberdeen University is good for maths as well. It's early history produced many FRSs.

@Hamma04 4 ай бұрын

Good luck

@jim_andrianakos 3 ай бұрын

That is a great dream to aspire to. I hope you make it happen. Never stop learning.

@fredcunningham9753 Ай бұрын

You can do it!

@johnhopkinson5319 13 сағат бұрын

Me too!

@JackMott 8 ай бұрын

Is there somewhere I can read up on the building blocks aspect of prime numbers and why this is important/interesting? Like they are building blocks via multiplication. Are they the only set of numbers that you can multiply together to produce all other integers?

@OxfordMathematics 8 ай бұрын

www.amazon.co.uk/Music-Primes-Unsolved-Problem-Mathematics/dp/1841155802

@bijanminaee7600 6 ай бұрын

I Found years ago a book in paperback by John Derbyshire with title "Prime Obsession" which proved very light but instructive. It is a math book that reads like a mystery novel.

@casdinnissen6032 9 сағат бұрын

I mean of course you can always add a composite number to the primes and they still generate all integers. (Ie, every number is a product of primes, so its also a product of primes, while also allowing another composite). I suppose that the smallest set with the property you're asking for are the primes. This is because if you have a set A which is not the primes, then there is a prime P which is not in A. Then since P is prime, it cannot be written as (a*b) in N, so it cannot be written as (a*b) in A, as A is a subset of N. So then P is not a product of elements of A. Hope that helps!

@TheMorphingOne 7 ай бұрын

I want to solve this large factors with my computational algorithm. Where do I publish it?

@yungmitar5582 14 күн бұрын

at šargovac

@mindfulawareness1 2 ай бұрын

What is a number (outside of our heads) let alone a prime number?

@dschai0220 4 ай бұрын

노자 도덕경 1장을 수학으로 해독했는데 perfect number and prime number와 관련 있습니다. 기본 한자와 한국어를 해야 이해할 수 있는데 관심 있는 분 있기를 바랍니다.

@bobjerk2492 3 ай бұрын

I don't like his use of the phrases "building-blocks", "chemical compound (molecule)" and "constituent atoms" to describe the function of factors in multiplication. A complete chemical compound contains the SUM of its atoms in a new arrangement. Factors however, when multiplied together, result in the fabrication of consituent parts fabricated from nowhere which did not exist before. It also does not work with primes since 1 x 7 = 7 but has 2 parts which add up to 1 part, OR 8 parts depending on how far one stretches the concept.

@williamlewis8773 2 ай бұрын

That often results from students using symbols in a way that , when they begin study of another field that uses a semantically different symbolical wordset , needs , perhaps for their first time , to contend with puns and ambiguities in what they assume is a merged and dis-ambiguated set of commonly understood pairings of meaning to symbolical form while the wordset is actually a "hot mess" of ambiguities . In 1970s USA , some university students who were studying from texts using inherited technical notational standards had such problems when studying both classical physics and what was to them a new standard in the language of chemistry-related formally standardized symbolisms .