Here is what gets us mathematicians excited

[Seal (SmittyIsOurSavior)]

Sounds to me like he's proven that, in an infinite sequence of numbers, you won't go more than 70 million numbers between primes.

 

That is incredible and terribly useless information. But I guess if finding out things like this and thousands of digits of pi per second is really what people want to do with themselves, all the power to them I guess.

[thatlookseasy]

Actually, finding really big prime numbers is incredibly useful in computer security.

 

This doesnt really have anything to do with that, but still

[Doyle]

I cupped one of my own farts and smelled it while reading this.

[cptx]

[sharkkiller]

I would think that there may be applications for this possibly in theoretical physics. I guess....maybe....hell I dunno. Still vaguely interesting though.

[Raskle]

That is incredible and terribly useless information. But I guess if finding out things like this and thousands of digits of pi per second is really what people want to do with themselves, all the power to them I guess.

 

I don't know if I'd call exploration of Mathematics "useless." Remember, it was this line of thinking that eventually resulted in plotting our solar system, utilization of lasers in surgery, and the introduction of the microchip, which led ultimately to the production of mass quantity computers.

 

Which all led to the Huddle... I'd never say discoveries in Math to ever be useless, myself. Harvested for both good and evil, maybe (aka Nuclear bombs), but never useless.

[Seal (SmittyIsOurSavior)]

I don't know if I'd call exploration of Mathematics "useless." Remember, it was this line of thinking that eventually resulted in plotting our solar system, utilization of lasers in surgery, and the introduction of the microchip, which led ultimately to the production of mass quantity computers.

 

Which all led to the Huddle... I'd never say discoveries in Math to ever be useless, myself. Harvested for both good and evil, maybe (aka Nuclear bombs), but never useless.

 

Well things like this and as many digits of pi as a computer could possibly calculate seems a little useless.

 

Math as a whole, of course it isn't useless.

[Zcustom]

I feel less intelligent now

 

not that that was a difficult task

[Happy Panther]

Well things like this and as many digits of pi as a computer could possibly calculate seems a little useless.

 

Math as a whole, of course it isn't useless.

 

Some of these high level math proofs find their way into the mainstream. Many are actually critical. We won WWII because we broke the AXIS codes. How we did it is a very cool story and involves high level math.

 

It's beyond me but here is a proof that remains unsolved. Wiki claims it would have a huge impact on many areas. And you get a $1,000,000 if you solve it.

 

Aside from being an important problem in computational theory, a proof either way would have profound implications for mathematics, cryptography, algorithm research, artificial intelligence, game theory, multimedia processing and many other fields.

 

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P_versus_NP_problem

[Gabeking]

I'm nervous as shlt cuz I have to pass calculus on order to declare for a business major.. Ugh it's the only class I'm not confident about lol

[Doc Holiday]

I'm nervous as shlt cuz I have to pass calculus on order to declare for a business major.. Ugh it's the only class I'm not confident about lol

same thing here, but look at it this way, it's the last math class you will ever have to take! That's what I have kept telling myself to get through it.