Prime numbers and their surprising patterns

from The Art of Mathematics · host Carol Jacoby

Joseph Bennish talks about prime numbers, a simple concept with surprising characteristics. Are they regular or random? This takes us into unexpected realms--calculus, complex numbers, Fourier transforms and "the music of the primes."

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